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 ...

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.

Today, the future cost of old New Deal programs still in effect is reckoned at more than $50 trillion. These programs include Social Security, Medicare (an amendment to Social Security), Aid to ...

The Green New Deal from Below can contribute to outflanking an authoritarian national government. To resist and eventually overcome such forces, we need to create bastions of what the Polish ...

A year of smaller payments to providers and a new early education program for 4-year-olds are part of the deal in the budget.

These programs made a big difference for the land, as well as for the people they employed: A 1946 report found that New Deal projects built or upgraded 650,000 miles of roads, more than 125,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Located in Huguenot, New York, and totaling 1,000 acres, the camps had for decades hosted underserved children. Around 1,200 kids ages 7 to 16 attended each summer, and a third of them received ...

Youth camps serve kids ages 4-12, and teen camps serve kids 13-15. There are also specialty camps that last six to eight weeks, where kids can hone specialized skills in activities like tennis ...

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

But the fact is, most New Deal programs were anything but race-neutral–or, for that matter, gender-neutral–in their impact. Some, like the initial Social Security old-age pension program, were ...