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Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we often take them for granted.
First, the nominee needed solid New Deal credentials; he had to be a "thumping, evangelical New Dealer," said Roosevelt (and Black was certainly that, having voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt ...
In the late 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal provided employment through programs such as Works Project Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and The Federal Art Project.
Roosevelt, who took office in 1933 and steered the U.S. economy through the Great Depression and World War II, ushered in the first phase of the New Deal within his first 100 days.
The New Deal was chaotic, confusing, and went at a blistering pace. It was under Roosevelt that Americans started to regard the first 100 days of a presidency as so critically important.
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.
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.
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 ...