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New Deal

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Opponents of FDR’s New Deal called it a ‘disaster’

FDR’s New Deal transformed America and is credited with helping the US survive the Great Recession. But his political opponents — including incumbent President Herbert Hoover — called it “a disaster.”

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A Green New Deal

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Mark Kurlansky on What America Eats

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The New Deal and African Americans

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Obama’s ‘New Deal’ aises questions about the success of FDR’s original

Global Politics

With Senators expected to pass what has been called President Obama’s New Deal, an old debate about the original New Deal is bubbling up again. Did FDR’s program really drag the U.S. out of the Great Depression or was it WWII that put us back on track?

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As one stimulus package is debated, the legacy of another is demolished

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Tracie Rozhon, freelance reporter for The New York Times joins us for a look at a group that has started a new national movement to save the buildings that lay at the center of the New Deal.

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A green new deal

Environment

Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his New Deal in the first hundred days of his administration. Will President-elect Barack Obama embark on an ambitious green New Deal when he takes office?

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