Day: December 14, 2013

December 2013 Newsletter

  This month in history The NBC Radio Network program “America’s Town Meeting of the Air” was an early form of electronic “townhall” democracy. In this broadcast from December 1935, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is defending and explaining the recently passed Social Security Act, while journalist George E. Sokolsky is attacking the new legislation.

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Celebrate Social Security's 90th Birthday
at the Frances Perkins National Monument!

September 7th, 2025 at 4 p.m. 

Join Frances Perkins Center, Jim Roosevelt, Jr., Maine Women’s Lobby, and other partners and special guests as we commemorate this anniversary.

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