How can we avoid sinking into another Great Depression? Unbound author Heather Boushey suggests we must mobilize our growing army of furloughed workers on behalf public health. But how do we do that? She says to look to how #FrancesPerkins created the Works Progress Administration to help us through the last one… A modern-day Works Progress Administration could
Perkins’ lost legacy is finding new life, thanks to the social and economic similarities to post-Great Depression America that may emerge as the world continues to cope with COVID. “Frances Perkins’ handiwork is the system we’re using right now to relieve the distress of hundreds of millions of people,” Downey says. “The bottom line is
To appreciate thoroughly the life and
accomplishments of Frances Perkins, a great agent
of social change who served as Secretary of Labor
throughout FDR’s tenure, requires recognizing that
faith was the foundation of who she was and all that
she did.
At its annual meeting on January 26,
the FPC Board elected member Keith
Mestrich as its new Chair.
Passing the torch. Michael Chaney Ends a Decade as Executive Director, 2014–2023, FPC Welcomes Giovanna Gray Lockhart as Executive Director, July 2023.
Listen Here Frances Perkins was the nation’s first female cabinet secretary. As FDR’s Secretary of