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Belarus may now be funding the Wagner Group of mercenaries, British officials have stated.

On March 25, 1911, a crowd of New Yorkers watched in horror as dozens of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers, mostly immigrant children and young women, jumped to their deaths as fire swept through the Greenwich Village garment factory. Many of the victims had attempted to escape through stairwells but were met with locked doors that had been fastened illegally to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks. In total, 146 workers died, making the Triangle Fire one of the deadliest industrial catastrophes in U.S. history. Among the crowd looking on that day was workers’ rights advocate Frances Perk...

At Hunter College, once an all-women’s school, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is already a legend, and not only because she was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet and the longest-serving labor secretary in history (12 years).

Unless you’re crossing Frances Perkins Pl. — newly renamed for 46th St. between Ninth and Tenth Aves. — Frances Perkins is a name, not every New Yorker may recognize. But to anyone who values Social Security, the 40-hour work week, unemployment insurance, and federal child labor laws, Perkins’ legacy deserves to be known, because the lessons of her life could not be more relevant to the challenges workers face today.