The programs included federal funding for ... "1935 and the Enduring New Deal," held in honor of the 75th anniversary of the enactment of programs such as the Works Progress Administration at ...

Proposals to create a “Climate Corps” are rooted in affection for the New Deal program that put 3 million men to work during the Great Depression planting trees, laying down trails, and ...

Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we often take them for granted.

What was the original New Deal about, again? Most kids are taught that it was a decidedly left-wing project to end the Great Depression, a series of big-spending government programs such as the ...

Watch Risa Goluboff explain how African Americans benefitted from FDR's New Deal programs, even though they weren't the intended audience.

Even New Deal programs that improved lives did not insulate the American people. There was stagflation in the 1970s. Untamed financial markets fueled a housing bubble during the 2000s.

Margaret Talbot reviews Scott Borchert’s new book, “Republic of Detours,” about the Federal Writers’ Project, part of the New Deal in the nineteen-thirties, during the Depression, and ...