New Deal
noun
: the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also
: the period of this program
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Some summoned the romance of the past: the feds opened applications for the brand new Climate Corps, which is modelled on the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps but with young people signing up to bring clean energy to communities across the country.
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Fonda joined Greenpeace and other climate activists to advocate for Congress to pass the Green New Deal in 2019.
—Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
But social democrats also differed from the type of reformists and progressive liberals that have typically dominated the Democratic Party in the United States, except during the New Deal era, in which a more social democratic understanding of the economy emerged.
—Sheri Berman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, the New Deal and Great Society programs created by Democrats ballooned the size of the welfare state.
—TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
Much of the New Deal was made possible by the commerce clause.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Depression and war came next, accompanied by a new regulatory regime — the New Deal.
—Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The paths of the Indiana and Minnesota towns help explain why the Wisconsin town’s ongoing support for Democrats is so rare among white, working-class New Deal counties.
—TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
He was known as an ally of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and as an isolationist who opposed U.S. entry into the world wars, the League of Nations and the formation of the United Nations.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Fonda joined Greenpeace and other climate activists to advocate for Congress to pass the Green New Deal in 2019.
—Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
But social democrats also differed from the type of reformists and progressive liberals that have typically dominated the Democratic Party in the United States, except during the New Deal era, in which a more social democratic understanding of the economy emerged.
—Sheri Berman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Between the 1930s and the 1960s, the New Deal and Great Society programs created by Democrats ballooned the size of the welfare state.
—TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
Much of the New Deal was made possible by the commerce clause.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Depression and war came next, accompanied by a new regulatory regime — the New Deal.
—Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The paths of the Indiana and Minnesota towns help explain why the Wisconsin town’s ongoing support for Democrats is so rare among white, working-class New Deal counties.
—TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
He was known as an ally of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and as an isolationist who opposed U.S. entry into the world wars, the League of Nations and the formation of the United Nations.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
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