Joe Biden is declaring Frances Perkins' Maine homestead a national monument

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : President Joe Biden is creating a new national monument in Maine to honor the legacy of a crusader for workers' rights and the nation's first female Cabinet secretary.
54% : "Honoring Frances Perkins with a national monument does more than acknowledge her work to establish Social Security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage and overtime pay, it is a challenge for us," acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said in a statement.
48% : She served as labor secretary under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Perkins played a critical role in reshaping labor law in the United States, particularly banning child labor, creating Social Security, unemployment insurance and a minimum wage, and instituting a 40-hour workweek.
48% : Before ascending to the national stage, Perkins was an advocate for workers' rights and served on the commission that investigated the deadly 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 workers, many of whom were young women and some of whom jumped several floors to their deaths to escape the flames.

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