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The Works Progress Administration
Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...
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Roosevelt and the New Deal
Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to ... of government action Works Progress Administration (WPA) This ...
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How FDR Built the American Security State
New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...
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The ‘New Deal’ - the start of Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidency
Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...
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Biden’s farewell address, like his presidency, misunderstood his task
Biden’s speech, like his presidency, took its bearings from a nostalgic vision of the New Deal. On this understanding ... Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated a long free-trade era and opposed ...