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What Do We Know About the WPA?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 21 Jul 17

The WPA (originally named Works Progress Administration) and later renamed (Works Projects Administration) was part of the “NEW DEAL” that was promised by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office as the President of the U.S. in...

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Change = New Deal?

shewolf52002 @shewolf52002 (1214) • United States 1 Mar 09

Has anyone else notice the eeery similarities between the Great Depression time politics and the ones we are seeing today? People in the 20's were enjoying a great time of prosperity, spending more and more money on new...

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New New Deal or Old New Deal; Neither Promote Economic Growth!!

rodney850 @rodney850 (2145) • United States 30 Oct 08

The following author shows the parallels of the "new" deal Barack Obama offers and the old new deal of FDR. As in the days of FDR, Obama's plan would do exactly what FDR's did to the economy; make it stagnate! Here for your...

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Is the Democrat Party Breaking up?

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 29 Apr 08

There is a very good article in the American Spectator, by William Tucker, about the internal trouble the Democrat Party is having with it's coalition members. http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13114 The...

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