A mural titled ‘The Security of the People’ by Seymour Fogel, illustrating the values and programs put forth by the New Deal. | Fine Art/GettyImages Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy.

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 ...

During the 36-year span from the beginning of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs in 1932 to the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, Democrats controlled the White House for 28 years and ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.

In addition to investing in roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure, the U.S. government under the New Deal launched a range of social programs, hired out-of-work writers and actors through ...

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression, as the Trump administration slashes the federal government.

FDR appointed all people close to him who he deemed loyal and supportive of the new Deal. Indeed, Byrne stepped down from the Court to take a position in the administration.

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ... The law was part of Roosevelt’s somewhat controversial New Deal domestic program.

FDR’s CCC Was AAA. What’s Biden Doing? Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) Advertisement. ... The Civilian Conservation Corps, however, was the most popular of New Deal programs. Gen.

These four justices — Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland and Willis Van Devanter — were profoundly hostile to Roosevelt's New Deal programs and did everything they ...