Perkins Work Still Aiding Jobless Americans

Frances Perkins, the pioneering New Deal-era U.S. labor secretary who joined the ILR School faculty in the early 1960s, was the mastermind behind the minimum wage, the eight-hour day, the 40-hour work week, unemployment insurance, and led the committee that wrote the report setting the stage for the Social Security Act.

Born 140 years ago today, CNN featured Perkins in a story by Annalyn Kurtz titled, "She came to the rescue during the Great Depression. Now, in a pandemic, her work is still aiding jobless Americans."

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