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After Frances Perkins witnessed the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911, she was inspired to work to bring about groundbreaking worker rights and safety laws. She became Secretary of Labor—the first woman cabinet member—under FDR, and she went on to create the Social Security program, a system that includes unemployment and benefits millions of Americans today.
Deborah Hopkinson’s energetic text and Kristy Caldwell’s appealing illustrations introduce readers to a fascinating woman who has changed many American lives.