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New Deal

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• Originally published 12/02/2013

  How the New Deal Defines the Debate Over Obamacare

  Lessons from Messrs. Roosevelt and Hoover.

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• Originally published 10/28/2013

  The New Deal's Debut Wasn't Smooth Sailing, Either

  But historian Michael Hiltzik says Obama could've learned a few lessons from FDR.

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• Originally published 08/18/2013

  Students, Want a Cure for the Job Market Blues? Consider Politics.

  The 2014 elections will give students plenty of opportunities for activism and even employment.

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• Originally published 08/18/2013

  Why Do We Have Such an Activist Presidency?

  It's thanks to FDR, the New Deal, and above all World War II.

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• Originally published 05/09/2013

  Ira Katznelson: The Racist History of the New Deal

  WPA Poster, 1935.When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, the United States faced uncertainty and imminent peril at home and abroad. The unemployment rate was 25 percent. Systems of credit and banking were broken and the stock market had lost 80 percent of its value since the 1929 crash. Factories were abandoned. Thousands of families lost their homes. There was no social safety net for millions of impoverished men, women and children. At the same time, liberal democracies struggled as brutal dictatorships in Germany, Russia and Italy flourished, and some Americans feared complete disintegration of the social order and revolution.

• Originally published 03/19/2013

  David Woolner: FDR -- Minimum Wage Critics "Hopelessly Reactionary"

  David Woolner is Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian at the Roosevelt Institute, and Associate Professor of History at Marist CollegeOur Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself. All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor. –FDR, May 1937