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New @Medium post - How a modern-day Works Progress Administration could prevent a #coronavirus depression in the United States
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Our economy cannot recover without restoring the public’s confidence that the spread of the virus has been contained.
Employing idled workers to implement track and trace nationwide provides those out of work with a meaingful job opportunity and will speed economic recovery.
Employing idled workers to implement track and trace nationwide provides those out of work with a meaingful job opportunity and will speed economic recovery.
The idea dates back to the Great Depression, when DOL Secretary #FrancesPerkins helped launch the Works Progress Administration.
We stand on the precipice of another grave crisis, but we have the benefit of looking back in time for potential solutions. medium.com/@hup/the-woman…
We stand on the precipice of another grave crisis, but we have the benefit of looking back in time for potential solutions. medium.com/@hup/the-woman…
A random historical footnote: People you may not know about, but probably should. By Robert Peeples
When Frances Perkins was a little girl she asked her parents why nice people could be poor.
When Frances Perkins was a little girl she asked her parents why nice people could be poor.
Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank. Eventually she went to Mount Holyoke College and majored in physics. In her final semester she took a class in American economic history.
She toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified.
Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters in social work from Columbia University. In 1910 Perkins became Executive Secretary of the NYC Consumers League.
Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters in social work from Columbia University. In 1910 Perkins became Executive Secretary of the NYC Consumers League.
