Frances Perkins

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/19
  

  The woman behind Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint for the presidency

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  Frances Perkins, the first female Cabinet secretary, is a model for how to bring activism to government.

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  8/23/19
  

  No Refuge: Frances Perkins, the Labor Department, and Immigration

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

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• 2-27-17
  

  Does It Matter Who the Secretary of Labor Is?

  by T.R.C. Hutton

  Most of the people who have filled the position, whatever their intentions, have been largely ineffectual with the exception of Frances Perkins, who served the longest, during the New Deal.