One vivid example from history involves an incident from nearly 100 years ago when conservatives attempted to impeach Frances Perkins—Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary and the first ...

One vivid example from history involves an incident from nearly 100 years ago when conservatives attempted to impeach Frances Perkins—Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary and the first woman to be ...

The Trump administration’s abortive plan to sell off hundreds of government properties — including the Labor Department’s headquarters at the Frances Perkins Building — put the spotlight on an idea ...

As a GOP Senator, Alan Simpson attacked Social Security with insults and lies. Why has Washington overlooked his record?

In this extended interview Downey discusses Frances Perkins, a labor rights activist, close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the first female secretary of labor.

The General Services Administration this week released a huge list of what it deemed "non-core" federally owned properties ...

The lives these 13 places honor, however, are groundbreaking and inspirational — from American Red Cross-founder Clara Barton, whose home in 1974 became the first site dedicated to a woman, to former ...

And in 1933, she gained notice when she proposed President-elect Franklin Roosevelt appoint an all-woman Cabinet. But Pruette just didn't make a flippant suggestion, she developed a list of names for ...

Humphrey Building (home to the Department of Health and Human Services), the Frances Perkins Building (which houses the Department of Labor), and even GSA’s own headquarters — a striking ...

Forrestal Building that houses the Department of Energy, the Hubert H. Humphrey Building that houses the Department of Health and Human Services, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the ...