Presented in Partnership with the Lincoln Theater. Film screening: July 29th 2021 @2pm and 7pm only. Click below to purchase your ticket! https://lincolntheater.net/presents/the-new-deal-for-artists-1976-with-guest-speaker-sarah-peskin/...
From The New York Times: 7.7 Million Young People Are Unemployed. We Need a New ‘Tree Army.’ The Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps helped build America at a time of national crisis. Let’s do it again. Opinion By Collin O’Mara Mr. O’Mara is the president and C.E.O. of the National Wildlife...
The Living New Deal, a partner organization of the Frances Perkins Center, presents The Fireside newsletter that we are delighted to share with you. FDR’s Fireside Chats were a staple of his presidency. During these evening radio addresses, Roosevelt calmly reassured a fearful America; explained...
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...
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...