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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. Though African ...

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins ...

Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that ...

The New Deal war on crime created a coercive apparatus that Roosevelt used throughout World ... GOODMAN is a senior fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics ...

One of North Carolina’s most picturesque roads has officially etched its name in history. The Blue Ridge Parkway, a route in ...

The eponym of the Labor Department’s headquarters, she played a pivotal role in developing and implementing Roosevelt’s sweeping New Deal programs, most notable Social Security. During Perkins ...

Besides the president and his staff, who should care about how Joe Biden’s policy legacy is judged? Everyone who believes that government should invest in the future and defend the interests of ...

His landmark domestic accomplishments are comparable to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson ... Medicaid and other health programs. On criminal justice, he issued an executive ...