Right on time, Maine's newest national monument celebrates the work of one heroic American woman — and the beautiful home and grounds that supported it.

A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

For Frances Perkins, a labor leader who helped create Social Security, the 57 acres of field and forest were a place to escape the rush of public business that normally consumed her.

Perkins was U.S. secretary of labor under Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945 and architect of the Social Security Act of 1935, which established federal support for elders, unemployed people, children ...

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has tapped Bryan Slater, a former Cabinet official under Gov. Jim Gilmore 20 years ago, as the new secretary of labor to fix problems at the Virginia ...

Francis Nakai stands with four of his grandchildren and his wife marked by signs of hard labor and poverty. The overall impression of the Nakai family is a somber one, a picture of a family pulled ...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer attends a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on her nomination for Secretary of Labor, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

All the latest breaking news on Department of Labor. Browse Newsweek archives of photos, ... every vacation day—to Frances Perkins, the nation's first-ever woman to serve as a Cabinet secretary.

On June 2, the Department of Labor announced the launch of its opinion letter program.. The program expands the department’s commitment to providing meaningful compliance assistance that helps workers ...

Chavez-DeRemer joined the Republican House members for a tour of the offshore wind training center at Suffolk CCC. On April 16, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum issued a stop-work order on ...