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On June 16, Roosevelt signed Glass-Steagall, a law regulating the banking system, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, an omnibus business and labor relations bill with a public works component.
Quite the opposite! And yet, this failure—which ought to be obvious to everyone—has been so effectively repurposed that, if people “know” anything about this era at all, it is that FDR’s New Deal ...
Upon accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, with the country mired in the third year of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people." ...
The New Deal failed to revive the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but its legacy lives on today increasing the social welfare of America.
A man many considered the second most powerful man in the country during the early part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration was Hugh S. Johnson, a retired Army brigadier ...
Norvelt, in its infancy. The town was built in the mid-1930s, giving 250 families a 2 to 3-acre homestead as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same? We look back at a moment in U.S. history when the federal government remade its relationship with the economy.
Roosevelt House Opens New Exhibition HEALING WALLS: HEALTH AND ART IN NEW DEAL NEW YORK The exhibition and book will be previewed at an event at Roosevelt House on November 22 from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Far from an accomplishment, handling the economy like FDR is a sign of failure. The numbers prove Biden’s policies have made people’s lives and livelihoods worse.
FDR and Biden initiated massive interventions in the economy. Neither improved economic outcomes, but rather made matters much worse.