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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Rulings of those sorts might well engender the greatest consolidation of presidential power since the New Deal.
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Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Khanna won legitimacy on the left by backing Sanders in 2020 and has addressed his own potential vulnerabilities, including a personal fortune worth tens of millions of dollars through his wife’s family, by backing the Green New Deal and other anti-corporate positions, Jayapal said.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
Here, the history is the birth and death of the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project, and the question of whether a country so fractious can sustain a national theater.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
On this day in 1933, as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was created to combat unemployment during the Great Depression.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
Federal protection of some child workers finally arrived with passage of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act as part of the New Deal.
—Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
Related Articles Remember Hoover’s Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal recovery?
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Such an action could be a preemptive strike against a Supreme Court poised to unravel the regulatory framework established during the New Deal.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
True, Biden repudiated Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, Defund the Police, and Abolish ICE.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024
Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Khanna won legitimacy on the left by backing Sanders in 2020 and has addressed his own potential vulnerabilities, including a personal fortune worth tens of millions of dollars through his wife’s family, by backing the Green New Deal and other anti-corporate positions, Jayapal said.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
Here, the history is the birth and death of the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project, and the question of whether a country so fractious can sustain a national theater.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
On this day in 1933, as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was created to combat unemployment during the Great Depression.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
Federal protection of some child workers finally arrived with passage of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act as part of the New Deal.
—Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
Related Articles Remember Hoover’s Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal recovery?
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Such an action could be a preemptive strike against a Supreme Court poised to unravel the regulatory framework established during the New Deal.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
True, Biden repudiated Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, Defund the Police, and Abolish ICE.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024
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