Roosevelt’s New Deal did much to make the American Regime workable in the twenty-first century, ... On the other hand, ameliorative welfare programs of the New Deal must be left largely intact.

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August of 1935, one of the most enduring programs of his New Deal. Roosevelt later said it was the program of which he was most proud.

Roosevelt also created a short-term jobs program, the Civil Works Administration, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933-34, which employed four million onetime relief recipients in mostly ...

In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt worked quickly ... of the New Deal’s most successful programs.

The centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic agenda was the New Deal. ... having voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt's major New Deal programs.) Second, he had to be ...

The worst of Trump’s attacks on the New Deal is his contempt for America’s most popular domestic program: Social Security. His current protestations that he would protect it are not credible.

In addition to investing in roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure, the U.S. government under the New Deal launched a range of social programs, hired out-of-work writers and actors through ...

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.