Thank you for sharing that. I did not know and went to the Frances Perkins Center website. Yet another great lesson from the professor on history as she is interviewed at the center. Well worth watching.
We Mainers are very proud of Frances Perkins--well, with the exception of former guv LePage. LePage was so anti-labor that he had a commemorative mural, part of which featured Frances Perkins and other significant events in Maine's Labor history, taken down and hidden in a closet. The mural had been in the entrance area of Maine's Department of Labor, but LePage declared that it was too inimical to business people entering the building and had it taken down and tucked away.
Thankfully the panels comprising the mural have been restored to an appropriate spot and we can celebrate our workforce history and accomplishments.
When I drive through Maine and see bumper stickers and signs for LePage, I am saddened because it means more Mainers are informed of what it took to get here. Men like LePage did not build this country, they just live off what others accomplished.
Republicans live off of the working class тАШsweat laborтАЩ, and refuse to give credit where credit is due. To the Democratic base that pays their salaries!
Trump proved to be a huge "loss leader" and vulgar LePage would never have won once, let alone twice if there hadn't been a third candidate siphoning off votes from the Dems. This last contest, between LePage and Governor Mills (no relation) had no third party and Paulie got the voting booth trouncing he so desperately deserved.
Here! Here! Frances was powerful force for good. I am proud to be a Mainer, although I have been a resident of England since 1956. Born in 1933, it was so interesting to read about events around my young years. I was so upset when LePage removed those panels.
We can NOT let these foul twisted Repugnants and their corporate owners dismantle all the good Ms. Perkins and her allies worked so hard to establish. For the sake of our country and our very souls, we must prevail.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the diametric opposite of Frances Perkins. I think the average Arkansan is very far down her list of priorities. Her priorities seem to have been permanently warped by her close association with the amoral leader she so willingly lied for.
MAGA voters think Dumpster is one of them. They spent years yelling insults and conspiracy theories at their television sets. Trump yells the same insults and crackpot theories *on* television (and social media, and at rallies.) Also, the Republicans went to great deliberate effort over years to turn abortion, immigration, and guns into wedge issues, when they saw that their actual beliefs werenтАЩt popular. Then they exploited those issues to polarize the country and to persuade voters that they, the Republicans, were the only party that agreed with them on those issues.
I've read a couple of times musings that even our poor people are too rich -- instead of voting for things that improve our standard of living and housing opportunities, we now vote for intangibles, like "freedom," "diversity," and "family values." Lovely ideas and even important, albeit impossible to define, but clearly a sign of an electorate that is enjoying a full belly.
They are called тАЬsheepтАЭ. You can get them to do anything you want if you dangle a carrot in front of them. TFG has made his life profession dangling carrots for the sheep.
Agreed. But I ask, тАЬwhy do the likes of Sarah Huckabee Sanders get elected in the first place?тАЭ We have a lot of work to do to turn around the votes of those who support these candidates and travel to Waco to applaud the most evil, lying person in modern times. What will it take to turn the tide as the NY fire did?
One could be forgiven for thinking that the 1/6 attempted insurrection would have triggered remorse and a commitment to do better, not worse as tfg wants
We cannot forget that she is the child of a predecessor in the her office, Pastor Mike. Or that he's the poster board for faux Christianity and its accompanying hypocrisy.
Sara is a staunch anti-abortionist as well. It seems the calculation the right-to-life people make is that industries like meat packing and construction will always require a continual pool of cheap labor.
The right to life people are strictly about controlling women's bodies and preventing sex outside of marriage. From the point of view of business people, waiting for children now in utero to grow up would take way too long. The cheap labor people encourage immigration, because immigrants are even more exploitable than poor Americans, plus, it's easier to flood the labor market with immigrants.
There's a recent book you should read, Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth.
Among the many examples, in 1980, most meat packers were Black, earning good middle class wages. By that decade's end, most were immigrants, toiling for barely above minimum wage, under atrocious conditions, where maimings and amputations were frequent. Similar conditions prevailed in other areas of low/no-skilled work.
The book is solid (296 footnotes), yet well written, covering the relevant academic economic history, black periodicals, statements from black leaders beginning with Frederick Douglass, whose sons were downwardly mobile due to mass immigration (companies would send ships to Europe to bring back white workers so they could fire the black workers, and the same sort of thing goes on today with companies bringing in H1-Bs), and gov't commissions on immigration reform. The latest of these, run by Barbara Jordan, the Black Texas Democrat who made her name on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, recommended cutting immigration numbers roughly in half, and strict enforcement of immigration laws, so that Blacks and other American workers could get decent jobs with decent pay.
The book also gives the lie to to the notion there are jobs Americans won't do. the author interviewed laid off poultry workers on the Eastern Shore, who'd been replaced by immigrants. Would they take their old jobs back? No, they told him. with the greatly reduced wages, they'd have to live in their cars, or many to a house. (the book is $13 on Amazon.)
Companies that need more workers should be raising their wages. Our labor participation rate is still quite low (meaning a lot of unemployed people are not looking for work).
Thanks for the suggestion. Another book worth reading tells the history of labor with an emphasis on women. It's titled Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
Interesting. I'll put it on my list. My family has an interest in labor that goes back a couple of generations on the maternal side (my grandmother got her PhD in Labor Relations in 1915; her brother, a union lawyer, ran the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today requested a Major Disaster Declaration from President Joe Biden to support ongoing recovery efforts in communities impacted by the severe winter weather in January and February of this year, which caused power outages, damage to infrastructure, and deaths.
I wouldn't mind seeing a little hardball from Biden. He just gets dissed and dissed by these Red State demagogues. DeSantis, now Huckabee, and I can't believe the governor of Mississippi won't be reaching out for the damage to his state. Yet these same governors pledge fealty to tfg who never, ever, thinks of anyone but himself.
While advocating for a reduced federal government, they turn to that same government to help them in times of chaos. They don't want to pay for any of it themselves, but think it's okay to ask the rest of us to do so. If there was a way to make it clear to those who voted for these thugs that they've been sold down the river.
ItтАЩs always important to think about the imbalance between the Red States that are often the net takers of Federal monies and the Blue States that are generally the net providers
Yeah, I agree. However..... Biden is more concerned about the *people* living in those states, who voted against him, than their own governors, who are just concerned about anti-younameit. I think Dr Spock would say "It's illogical" but it IS the human thing to do.
I agree. It wouldn't be right to punish people for what their leaders are doing, but they themselves voted for those thugs. How might we provide both the help and the message that this is what good government does and voting Republican opposes all of this help they are being given?
We're all watching. First she shamelessly lied for TFG at countless press briefings. Now she is moving her state backwards on child labor laws. Whoever mentioned Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle to her, didn't clarify that the conditions he described are not a goal nor an instruction manual. Time has shown that Michelle Wolff comparing her to The Handmaid's Tale's Aunt Lydia was extremely unkind...to Aunt Lydia.
The sad thing is that it seems the wrong people ARE reading it and using it as their inspirational playbook. An undesirable case of life imitating art. I hope we get this ship righted long before we need a real life Mayday.
Yes! And I just shared HCR's letter and resources on 20 Fox entertainment programs this morning. Felt good to spread truth and facts on a really slimy, propaganda station. The drama and things I had to hear/read on that fox journey gave me a stomachache so I had to quit when I reached 20.
Good use of my time waking up way too early this morning!!
it's incumbent on Americans to fight to maintain her legacy. If you have benefited from it you heed to fight to keep it. Francis Perkins did SO much to fight for these benefits ,that work is passed down to every generation to keep them. If anything trump and the Republicans have shown the public is that complacency kills all the hard fought for gains and kills democracy.
I have long admired her. She is the epitome of тАЬcrisis = opportunityтАЭтАжshe took a tragedy that should never have been and transformed it into a societal benefit. Perhaps her likeness on a coin, or stamp at the very least, to honor her contribution.
Why isnтАЩt her name known to every school child. I never heard of the fire until an adult and her until years later. Least appreciated and most consequential - a true public servant.
I don't think Elise Stefanik would want the children in her northern NY district to learn about Frances Perkins. Sounds way too Woke to be admired. After all, Perkins actually cared about the welfare of the poor. That would not sell well in today's GOP leadership circle. Probably need to be banned.
I didn't learn about Frances Perkins in US History in high school OR college either. That was in the 1960's when women were not considered very "important" in US History. My college US History was a male chauvinist man and he chose the text book. I made it a point of nailing him to the wall about his interpretation of some aspects of our history and instigated class discussions.
I still got an A grade and upon graduation from Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon and was given The Most Valuable Student Award. It was a surprise but then I volunteered to help with registration, was Head of the Student Court and helped set up the college library. All that in two years with a 4 point. I was a mover and shaker female student making policy but not on the grand scale as Francis Perkins.
The way I see it, Francis Perkins was woman with wisdom and a mission who helped break the downward cycle of The Great Depression. I certainly appreciate her achievements such as Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood and all our rural Farm Market Roads, labor laws, Social Security and turning the USA back into a country that cared about it's people.
It's time to crack down on our Corporations using our anti-monopoly laws, support Unions, boycott corporations for bad behavior and not buy their products or services and stop voter suppression laws, racism, and "Christian Nationalism". If things don't turn around and the Republican Party doesn't get a handle on their stupidity, I will move back to Switzerland like I did in 1970 and live there. I will not live under a Republican Autocracy. But then I am still into standing my ground and raising my fist and fighting against the Republicans, Kevin McCarthy has to go. He has proven how weak spined a man he is at the 2023 Legislative Session. Weak, puny man, Kevin Mc Carthy is. Shameful!
Today being Sunday, I may just go to my neighbor church just to shake their up their "Christian Nationalism" ideas.
What I am finding curiously interesting about McCarthy is what seems his attempt to create an image on Twitter while grasping at the mantras of the extremists - parents having the right to decide what their children learn in school is yesterday's flavor. He has posted photos of himself playing with his dog, and today a huge headshot if him trying to look powerful. An embarrassment to California. Bakersfield is the most polluted city in the U.S. with lung harming particulates destined to kill. Why these people vote for him boggles.
Frances Perkins is one of the least appreciated heroes in our history.
Just goes to show what is possible when the motivation is for public good instead of abhorrent self-serving circuses....
Reminds me that Dr. Cox Richardson was honored by the Frances Perkins Center with the Intelligence and Courage Award in 2021.
Thank you for sharing that. I did not know and went to the Frances Perkins Center website. Yet another great lesson from the professor on history as she is interviewed at the center. Well worth watching.
I'm on my way...
Chris, thank you! Just watched her interview. So enlightening, as usual.
Indeed
Love that!
Like many of her students here and beyond, I made a Perkins Center donation in HCRтАЩs honor on that occasion; have continued to support as possible.
Thanks for the tip. Like others, I was unaware and will need to check that interview for myself.
We are there again! Vote ЁЯТЩ
YES.
And one of the most consequential people in our history.
We Mainers are very proud of Frances Perkins--well, with the exception of former guv LePage. LePage was so anti-labor that he had a commemorative mural, part of which featured Frances Perkins and other significant events in Maine's Labor history, taken down and hidden in a closet. The mural had been in the entrance area of Maine's Department of Labor, but LePage declared that it was too inimical to business people entering the building and had it taken down and tucked away.
Thankfully the panels comprising the mural have been restored to an appropriate spot and we can celebrate our workforce history and accomplishments.
When I drive through Maine and see bumper stickers and signs for LePage, I am saddened because it means more Mainers are informed of what it took to get here. Men like LePage did not build this country, they just live off what others accomplished.
Great comment: I will expand a little.
"People like our current Republican party did not build this country, they just live off what others accomplished."
"....and manage to persuade millions of Americans that they are benefitting from these non-accomplishments."
Republicans live off of the working class тАШsweat laborтАЩ, and refuse to give credit where credit is due. To the Democratic base that pays their salaries!
Ugh, LePage. I recently moved back to Maine permanently and was SO happy to be able to vote against him!
LePage liked to say that he was Trump before Trump. And that is the only truth that ever came from the lips of Pompous Paul.
How sad a comment...and so short sighted...
Trump proved to be a huge "loss leader" and vulgar LePage would never have won once, let alone twice if there hadn't been a third candidate siphoning off votes from the Dems. This last contest, between LePage and Governor Mills (no relation) had no third party and Paulie got the voting booth trouncing he so desperately deserved.
Here! Here! Frances was powerful force for good. I am proud to be a Mainer, although I have been a resident of England since 1956. Born in 1933, it was so interesting to read about events around my young years. I was so upset when LePage removed those panels.
Now in the Maine State Museum.
Thank you...I knew the mural had been restored for public viewing, but I wasn't sure where.
I knew LePage had done this but am glad to learn the mural has been restored.
Wow, Le Page was an absolute turd , wasnтАЩt he? (IтАЩm trying to use non-offensive languageЁЯШЖ) Glad to hear the mural is back up!
We can NOT let these foul twisted Repugnants and their corporate owners dismantle all the good Ms. Perkins and her allies worked so hard to establish. For the sake of our country and our very souls, we must prevail.
Keep you eye on Sara Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas. That twit is changing the child labor laws in her state...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the diametric opposite of Frances Perkins. I think the average Arkansan is very far down her list of priorities. Her priorities seem to have been permanently warped by her close association with the amoral leader she so willingly lied for.
Morally corrupt, ethically corrupt, with zero integrity. And people vote for them. Because they appeal to voters who share their corrupt values.
I don't get it when people vote for things that are against their best interests...
Attention to what is in their best interests becomes secondary to bigotry and even hatred, butressed by easily available misinformation.
MAGA voters think Dumpster is one of them. They spent years yelling insults and conspiracy theories at their television sets. Trump yells the same insults and crackpot theories *on* television (and social media, and at rallies.) Also, the Republicans went to great deliberate effort over years to turn abortion, immigration, and guns into wedge issues, when they saw that their actual beliefs werenтАЩt popular. Then they exploited those issues to polarize the country and to persuade voters that they, the Republicans, were the only party that agreed with them on those issues.
I've read a couple of times musings that even our poor people are too rich -- instead of voting for things that improve our standard of living and housing opportunities, we now vote for intangibles, like "freedom," "diversity," and "family values." Lovely ideas and even important, albeit impossible to define, but clearly a sign of an electorate that is enjoying a full belly.
They are called тАЬsheepтАЭ. You can get them to do anything you want if you dangle a carrot in front of them. TFG has made his life profession dangling carrots for the sheep.
She is a Christian, they are all Christians. Oh My Yes
IтАЩd say she is a тАЬChristian.тАЭ
Obviously practicing from a very distorted and demented theology!
She was raised by a bigot. And hired by a bigot.
Erm, don't forget her daddy, who is in the same mold.
And close association with her Daddy, who wasn't much better.
Agreed. But I ask, тАЬwhy do the likes of Sarah Huckabee Sanders get elected in the first place?тАЭ We have a lot of work to do to turn around the votes of those who support these candidates and travel to Waco to applaud the most evil, lying person in modern times. What will it take to turn the tide as the NY fire did?
One could be forgiven for thinking that the 1/6 attempted insurrection would have triggered remorse and a commitment to do better, not worse as tfg wants
We cannot forget that she is the child of a predecessor in the her office, Pastor Mike. Or that he's the poster board for faux Christianity and its accompanying hypocrisy.
But did he teach her to lie so glibly?
He's a Baptist minister and a politician, QED.
And how about her father?!
Sara is a staunch anti-abortionist as well. It seems the calculation the right-to-life people make is that industries like meat packing and construction will always require a continual pool of cheap labor.
You forgot to add "expendable" labor.
Not sure how she lives with herself
The right to life people are strictly about controlling women's bodies and preventing sex outside of marriage. From the point of view of business people, waiting for children now in utero to grow up would take way too long. The cheap labor people encourage immigration, because immigrants are even more exploitable than poor Americans, plus, it's easier to flood the labor market with immigrants.
There's a recent book you should read, Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth.
Among the many examples, in 1980, most meat packers were Black, earning good middle class wages. By that decade's end, most were immigrants, toiling for barely above minimum wage, under atrocious conditions, where maimings and amputations were frequent. Similar conditions prevailed in other areas of low/no-skilled work.
The book is solid (296 footnotes), yet well written, covering the relevant academic economic history, black periodicals, statements from black leaders beginning with Frederick Douglass, whose sons were downwardly mobile due to mass immigration (companies would send ships to Europe to bring back white workers so they could fire the black workers, and the same sort of thing goes on today with companies bringing in H1-Bs), and gov't commissions on immigration reform. The latest of these, run by Barbara Jordan, the Black Texas Democrat who made her name on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, recommended cutting immigration numbers roughly in half, and strict enforcement of immigration laws, so that Blacks and other American workers could get decent jobs with decent pay.
The book also gives the lie to to the notion there are jobs Americans won't do. the author interviewed laid off poultry workers on the Eastern Shore, who'd been replaced by immigrants. Would they take their old jobs back? No, they told him. with the greatly reduced wages, they'd have to live in their cars, or many to a house. (the book is $13 on Amazon.)
Companies that need more workers should be raising their wages. Our labor participation rate is still quite low (meaning a lot of unemployed people are not looking for work).
Thanks for the suggestion. Another book worth reading tells the history of labor with an emphasis on women. It's titled Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
Interesting. I'll put it on my list. My family has an interest in labor that goes back a couple of generations on the maternal side (my grandmother got her PhD in Labor Relations in 1915; her brother, a union lawyer, ran the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century.
Just when we need to consume less meat. The Buchanans get their power from appealing to medieval thinking.
Tell me about your reference to the Buchanans. I'm not sure who you're referring to.
I would to cheap with uneducated labor.
Hipocrite
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today requested a Major Disaster Declaration from President Joe Biden to support ongoing recovery efforts in communities impacted by the severe winter weather in January and February of this year, which caused power outages, damage to infrastructure, and deaths.
I wouldn't mind seeing a little hardball from Biden. He just gets dissed and dissed by these Red State demagogues. DeSantis, now Huckabee, and I can't believe the governor of Mississippi won't be reaching out for the damage to his state. Yet these same governors pledge fealty to tfg who never, ever, thinks of anyone but himself.
While advocating for a reduced federal government, they turn to that same government to help them in times of chaos. They don't want to pay for any of it themselves, but think it's okay to ask the rest of us to do so. If there was a way to make it clear to those who voted for these thugs that they've been sold down the river.
ItтАЩs always important to think about the imbalance between the Red States that are often the net takers of Federal monies and the Blue States that are generally the net providers
Yeah, I agree. However..... Biden is more concerned about the *people* living in those states, who voted against him, than their own governors, who are just concerned about anti-younameit. I think Dr Spock would say "It's illogical" but it IS the human thing to do.
I agree. It wouldn't be right to punish people for what their leaders are doing, but they themselves voted for those thugs. How might we provide both the help and the message that this is what good government does and voting Republican opposes all of this help they are being given?
There are Democrats in those red states who need assistance too.
When times are tough, no one is for a small federal government and low federal taxes.
So true. Billionaires however have far fewer tough times than most of us
Yes, but unfortunately they seldom come riding to the rescue.
Leave it to Arkansas to dismantle our labor laws
We're all watching. First she shamelessly lied for TFG at countless press briefings. Now she is moving her state backwards on child labor laws. Whoever mentioned Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle to her, didn't clarify that the conditions he described are not a goal nor an instruction manual. Time has shown that Michelle Wolff comparing her to The Handmaid's Tale's Aunt Lydia was extremely unkind...to Aunt Lydia.
The Handmaids Tale should be required reading
The sad thing is that it seems the wrong people ARE reading it and using it as their inspirational playbook. An undesirable case of life imitating art. I hope we get this ship righted long before we need a real life Mayday.
I only recently read it and now think it should be required reading. Hard to believe it is almost 40 years since it was published in 1985.
Any of us who straddle the Republican and Democrat bubbles, please share todayтАЩs HCRтАЩs letter.
Yes! And I just shared HCR's letter and resources on 20 Fox entertainment programs this morning. Felt good to spread truth and facts on a really slimy, propaganda station. The drama and things I had to hear/read on that fox journey gave me a stomachache so I had to quit when I reached 20.
Good use of my time waking up way too early this morning!!
Wonderful job, Pensa! Thank you!!!
WOKE, LIKE FRANCES PERKINS, IS HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS.
Nicely turned phrase, Pensa!
better Woke than sleep-walking over the cliff
Tremendous job!
Way to go!!
I share it everyday.
Amen, Craig, Amen to that!
it's incumbent on Americans to fight to maintain her legacy. If you have benefited from it you heed to fight to keep it. Francis Perkins did SO much to fight for these benefits ,that work is passed down to every generation to keep them. If anything trump and the Republicans have shown the public is that complacency kills all the hard fought for gains and kills democracy.
I have long admired her. She is the epitome of тАЬcrisis = opportunityтАЭтАжshe took a tragedy that should never have been and transformed it into a societal benefit. Perhaps her likeness on a coin, or stamp at the very least, to honor her contribution.
She's on a coin (or was going to be, not sure)
Did not know thatтАжhope it is true, or is about to be so. Should be a тАШprominentтАЩ coin to be sure!
From 1980. https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/1821/USA/
Ooooh! Thank for the greaaaat ЁЯРЗЁЯХ│. It's a beautiful stamp! As is the Organized Labor stamp and the WPA and the CCC.
Thanks for this bit of info! I knew about & admired her, but did not know that she was honored with a stamp way back in the тАШ80тАЩs!!!!!!
Why isnтАЩt her name known to every school child. I never heard of the fire until an adult and her until years later. Least appreciated and most consequential - a true public servant.
I don't think Elise Stefanik would want the children in her northern NY district to learn about Frances Perkins. Sounds way too Woke to be admired. After all, Perkins actually cared about the welfare of the poor. That would not sell well in today's GOP leadership circle. Probably need to be banned.
Thankfully, Elise Stefanik has NO influence on how the children in her district are taught!
That is a blessing
Every social work student learns about her. She's a giant in our profession.
Good. And so long as Social Work doesnтАЩt get bannedтАж..
As we are the consummate community organizers and agitators, let them try.
Abso-,f***ing-lutely!
I don't remember learning about Frances Perkins in school. I learned about her from Dr. Richardson.
I didn't learn about Frances Perkins in US History in high school OR college either. That was in the 1960's when women were not considered very "important" in US History. My college US History was a male chauvinist man and he chose the text book. I made it a point of nailing him to the wall about his interpretation of some aspects of our history and instigated class discussions.
I still got an A grade and upon graduation from Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon and was given The Most Valuable Student Award. It was a surprise but then I volunteered to help with registration, was Head of the Student Court and helped set up the college library. All that in two years with a 4 point. I was a mover and shaker female student making policy but not on the grand scale as Francis Perkins.
The way I see it, Francis Perkins was woman with wisdom and a mission who helped break the downward cycle of The Great Depression. I certainly appreciate her achievements such as Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood and all our rural Farm Market Roads, labor laws, Social Security and turning the USA back into a country that cared about it's people.
It's time to crack down on our Corporations using our anti-monopoly laws, support Unions, boycott corporations for bad behavior and not buy their products or services and stop voter suppression laws, racism, and "Christian Nationalism". If things don't turn around and the Republican Party doesn't get a handle on their stupidity, I will move back to Switzerland like I did in 1970 and live there. I will not live under a Republican Autocracy. But then I am still into standing my ground and raising my fist and fighting against the Republicans, Kevin McCarthy has to go. He has proven how weak spined a man he is at the 2023 Legislative Session. Weak, puny man, Kevin Mc Carthy is. Shameful!
Today being Sunday, I may just go to my neighbor church just to shake their up their "Christian Nationalism" ideas.
What I am finding curiously interesting about McCarthy is what seems his attempt to create an image on Twitter while grasping at the mantras of the extremists - parents having the right to decide what their children learn in school is yesterday's flavor. He has posted photos of himself playing with his dog, and today a huge headshot if him trying to look powerful. An embarrassment to California. Bakersfield is the most polluted city in the U.S. with lung harming particulates destined to kill. Why these people vote for him boggles.
Hmmm, a politician with his dog? Smacks of another Checkers play.
Is he a crook, too? ЁЯШИ
Exactly. Such a poverty of true American history taught in American history classes in the U.S..
If anyone wants to learn more about the amazing Frances Perkins, I highly recommend the podcast "History Chicks" http://thehistorychicks.com/episode-218-frances-perkins-part-one/ You can also find a short bio & coloring sheet on pages 90-91 of Remembering the Ladies: From Patriots in Petticoats to Presidential Candidates - free ebook available at https://tellingherstories.com/book-remembering-the-ladies/
Awesome, thanks for the links!!!
Interesting! In my misc readings in American history she's turned up repeatedly. What a person! (and the others, unmentioned by name)
I agree! She was a hero
Mark Proulx: FP was a woman. We are only beginning to recognize all the great, yet unknown and therefore unappreciated, women in our history.
Mark Prouix, I agree Frances Perkins has been under rated in history