12/17/2024

Biden Administration Grants a National Monument to Nation's First Woman to Serve as Cabinet Secretary

Labor Secretary Frances Perkins will be recognized for her role

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression.

Perkins is one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that “if you’re working a full-time job, you shouldn’t have to live in poverty,” Biden said.

The outgoing Democratic president signed the proclamation establishing the monument in Newcastle, Maine, after a speech at the Department of Labor as he seeks to burnish his legacy as a champion of women’s and labor rights with just over five weeks left in his term.

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