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New Deal

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A federal program during the Great Depression that created public art and employed thousands, discussed as an inspiring example of public works that seems impossible in contemporary times.

Mentions (9)
"In similiar situations, teddy gave us national parks, fdr the new deal, lbj the civil rights act. We get beautiful caitlin."
The right are fumbling their moment just like progressive did · u/Gary-Hooper · ↑627 · 2026-02-06
"Thomas Hart Benton - Aross the Curve of the Road (1938) Erle Loran - Minnesota Highway (1934) Kenjiro Nomura - The Farm (1934) Arthur E. Cederquist - Old Pennsylvania Farm in Winter (1934) Leo Breslau - Plowing (1934)"
Middle America in New Deal public art · u/Philitian · ↑387 · 2023-09-21
"The right-wing political project for the entirety of the post-war period in the United States was devoted to overturning the New Deal, which they finally got with Ronald Reagan, an overturning that was so total and successful that the nominally oppositional Democrats were forced to abandon the New D"
"Democrats collaborated with Republicans to dismantle the New Deal for my entire lifetime, but are surprised that the public doesn't care about DOGE. Even before my lifetime, really. Started with Carter, ramped up with Clinton, became the bipartisan consensus that government can't do anything effecti"
"If you structure the economy in such a way that it takes away a large portion of working class jobs while at the same time stripping away the New Deal social safety net, knowing that people without access to jobs or aid starve to death, that's no different than if you knowingly left someone to die o"
They're murders. All murderers · u/Ill-Week4442 · ↑108 · 2022-11-21
"The Rural Electrification Act was one of FDR's signature New Deal programs. Very beautiful, hopeful messaging."
Posters from The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 · u/iz-real-defender · ↑70 · 2023-11-14
"Back when the Euro social democracies were emerging, and with FDR and the New Deal, the ruling classes seemed to understand that you had to give something back, both to keep the population in line and because people had to have the money to buy your products and services, you could not rack up endle"
Why have things gone so far? How did they do it? · yeahicreatedsomethin · ↑58 · 2025-12-11
"it's the middle of the great depression, an unimaginably bad (from our perspective) economic downturn, and America manages to create this huge outflowing of public art, paying thousands of unemployed people to do it. It's really (and again, I don't know the history well enough to know that this isn'"
the New Deal · u/eagleofthings2come · ↑42 · 2022-01-17
"The Rural Electrification Act was one of FDR's signature New Deal programs."
Posters from The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 · u/iz-real-defender · ↑70 · 2023-11-14
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