The New Deal helped build The City (San Francisco)
Imagine San Francisco without the Bay Bridge. Or the airport. Or Treasure Island. Or Aquatic Park. Or the zoo.
That is just a partial list of local landmarks that exist as a result of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt’s economic policy in the 1930s to help dig the nation out of the Great Depression.
Those investments, which continued until World War II, put millions of people to work and created much of the infrastructure we still rely upon today, historians say.
As President-elect Barack Obama touts an economic stimulus package that many are calling the “New” New Deal, historians are continuing to track the legacy of the original.
The California Living New Deal project, a collaboration that includes UC Berkeley and the California Historical Society, has mapped thousands of projects across the state funded by Roosevelt’s economic stimulus package and there are thousands more to still identify. With the nation’s recent economic woes, the project is garnering widespread interest.
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That is just a partial list of local landmarks that exist as a result of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt’s economic policy in the 1930s to help dig the nation out of the Great Depression.
Those investments, which continued until World War II, put millions of people to work and created much of the infrastructure we still rely upon today, historians say.
As President-elect Barack Obama touts an economic stimulus package that many are calling the “New” New Deal, historians are continuing to track the legacy of the original.
The California Living New Deal project, a collaboration that includes UC Berkeley and the California Historical Society, has mapped thousands of projects across the state funded by Roosevelt’s economic stimulus package and there are thousands more to still identify. With the nation’s recent economic woes, the project is garnering widespread interest.