Perkins is considered “the woman behind the New Deal,” as the Frances Perkins Center explained, and her policy ideas helped establish the modern middle class. Connect with the issues and ...

Downey embarked on a decade-long research journey to find out more. The result was The Woman Behind the New Deal, published in 2009. Bolstered by interviews with Perkins’ daughter, Downey’s ...

A one-woman play looking at the life of ... “She was really the brains behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression,” Hanson said.

Sep. 1—A hero to American workers. The woman behind the New Deal. A trailblazer with a foundational impact on the American workplace. A shining example to young women nationwide. A visionary ...

the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind the New Deal, according to the White House. Biden is expected to visit the Labor Department on Monday to ...

U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1880-1965) as President of the International Business Women's Congress held in Paris in 1936. | Wikimedia Commons President Joe Biden has established a ...