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Heather Cox Richardson Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 147 young people were dead,
3/25/1911
Once in office, [Francis] Perkins was a driving force behind the administration’s massive investment in public works projects to get people back to work. She urged the government to spend $3.3 billion on schools, roads, housing, & post offices. Those projects employed more than a million people in 1934.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-25-2025?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios