Frances Perkins

Victory! Transforming Occupy Wall Street From a Moment to a Movement

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Alliance of Californians for Communty Empowerment, Frances Perkins, Steve Mnuchin, Occupy La, Service Employees International Union, Fannie Mae, Ben Bernanke, Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street, Acce, Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, OneWest Bank, Rose Gudiel, Seiu, Politics News

Is the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon a moment of protest or a movement for sustained change? Will Rose Gudiel become the Rosa Parks of a new economic justice movement?

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When Unions are Strong, Americans Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor

David Morris | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Strike, Wisconsin, Labor, Workers, Lepage, Governor Walker, Taft Hartley, Frances Perkins, Unions, Inequality, Working Class, Productivity, Politics News

n the last generation, US unions have shrunk in size and influence, largely as a result of a withering attack by corporations and Republicans.

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Maine Labor Mural Is GONE

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Paul Lepage Maine Governor, Paul Lepage Mural, Paul Lepage, Maine Labor Mural, Labor, Maine-Mural, Frances Perkins, Paul Lepage Maine, Labor Protests, Labor Mural, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Maine Department of Labor quietly took down a mural depicting the state's labor history over the weekend, after Gov. Paul LePage (R)...

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Maine Governor Paul LePage Reveals the Fears of the Right

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Lepage, Frances Perkins, Republicans, Unions, Maine, Collective Bargaining, Politics News

Governor LePage has made it quite clear that, contrary to their repeated claims, conservatives do not revere the nation's history but actually fear it.

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Maine Gov. Orders Labor History Mural Taken Down

Talking Points Memo | Benjy Sarlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Labor, Department of Labor, Laura Boyett, Frances Perkins, Governor Paul LePage, Progressive Groups, Pro-Labor, Maine, Anti-Labor, Rosie the Riveter, Business News

It's Diego Rivera Redux in Maine, as Governor Paul LePage is taking down a mural in the state Department of Labor building depicting the history of th...

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Maine Governor Orders Removal Of Labor Mural

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Lepage Maine Governor, Maine Afl-Cio, Cesar Chavez, Paul Lepage, Labor, Maine Labor Department, Maine Labor, Maine Department of Labor, Labor Department, Department of Labor, Frances Perkins, Labor Unions, Frances Perkins Maine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Governor Paul LePage (R-Maine) has sparked a fresh battle with the state's union community, ordering a mural at the Department of Labor ...

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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Bold New World: Reflections on Netroots Nation 2010

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cheryl Contee, First Amendment, Children, Progressives, President Obama, Breitbart, Wall Street Reform, Pelosi, Jobs, Immigrants, Liberal, Obama, We Generation, Netroots Nation, Conservatives, Making It in America, Fdr, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Frances Perkins, President Bush, Candidates, Equality, Bush, Afghanistan, Jackandjillpoliticscom, Net Neutrality, Barack Obama, Lgbt, We the People, Netroots, John Adams, Shirley Sherrod, Iraq, Healthcare Reform, Diversity, Main Street, Main Street Jobs, Howard Dean, Politics News

Beware the myth of the monolith -- we netroots activists come from all walks of American life to do the hard work of creating harmony from cacophony in a tradition as patriotic as our country's motto, E Pluribus Unum.

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Our Grandmothers, Ourselves: Social Security Under Fire

Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's History Month, Deficit, Alice Rivlin, Frances Perkins, Roosevelt Institute, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, New Deal 2.0, Ben Bernanke, Medicare, Randall Wray, Health Care, Feminomics, Politics News

It's true that the Wall Street-fueled recession has taken its toll on Social Security's revenues. But who do the deficit hawks want to pay for the greed that got us into this? Your grandmother.

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Feminomics: Breaking New Ground - Women and the New Deal

David Woolner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frances-Perkins, Josephine Roche, Wpa, New Deal 2.0, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Great Depression, Business News

Looking back more than 70 years, we can see that the precedent for making sure that working women benefit from such federal programs as unemployment insurance came from the New Deal.

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A Woman Who Got it Right

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Frances Perkins, Economy, New Deal, Economic Crisis, Politics News

Today marks the 76th anniversary of Frances Perkins' nomination as Labor Secretary in FDR's cabinet, and it's worth revisiting her distinguished career for insights into weathering our current economic crisis.

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