Fdr Minimum Wage Quotes

1917, when Frances was thirty-seven and Mitchel faced reelection, women in New York first won the right to vote in state elections. In 1920 women won the right to vote in national elections when the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution was ratified.11

Perkins’s grandmother had told her that when somebody opens a door, you should always walk through. So Perkins confronted FDR with terms if she was to become his labor secretary. If she were to join the cabinet, FDR would have to commit to a broad array of social insurance policies: massive unemployment relief, a giant public works program, minimum wage laws, a Social Security program for old age insurance, and the abolition of child labor. “I suppose you are going to nag me about this forever,” Roosevelt told her. She confirmed she would.