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NEWS ABOUT: New Deal

New Deal stories: 18 news summaries
OPINION

 Put New 
 Stimulus 
 to Work for 
 Unemployed 

Painful 'new normal' isn't good enough

Oct 7, 09 2:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Economists are buzzing about a "new normal" of higher unemployment and wage stagnation post-recession, but Americans shouldn't resign themselves to a mediocre economy, writes Harold Meyerson. Downturns triggered by banking crises usually cause higher rates of unemployment for longer periods than normal downturns, but the cycle can be broken... More »

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recession • unemployment • US economy • New Deal • economic stimulus package • job creation

OPINION

 Learn From FDR, 
 Obama, and Show 
 Some Backbone 

Roosevelt biographer says president needs to block out GOP

Sep 3, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - As President Obama prepares to pull away from a public health care option, it shows not just that he's giving in to his opponents, writes Jean Edward Smith; worse, it "suggests that the Democratic Party has forgotten how to govern." In an op-ed for the New York Times,... More »

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Barack Obama • Democratic Congress • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • health care reform • Congressional Republicans

OPINION


 Dems Must 
 Reconnect to 
 Populist Soul 

Democrats are afraid to say that government can do good: Frank

Aug 26, 09 2:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - To save health care reform, Democrats need to remember what the real issue is: making the government work for average people, writes Thomas Frank for the Wall Street Journal. Health care is the Democrats' signature issue because it is quintessentially populist—a leveling of the playing field in the name... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrat • New Deal • health care reform • populism • conservatives • bipartisan

Anti-New Deal Book Is GOP's New Bible

Republicans flock to
The Forgotten Man in fight over stimulus

Apr 21, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - For the Republican Party, looking for any kind of traction for its opposition to President Obama’s stimulus spending, anti-New Deal book The Forgotten Man is a godsend, Politico reports. Author Amity Shlaes suggests, in what some call revisionist history, that FDR’s plan, pushed by government bureaucrats on a... More »

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New Deal • economic stimulus package • Great Depression • Steve King • Spencer Bachus • Eric Cantor • Wall Street bailout • President Obama • Amity Shlaes • The Forgotten Man

OPINION

 Dream Small, America 

Most of us will never achieve the impossible; we'd be better off admitting it

Mar 13, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American dream sounds great, but the relentless pursuit of "whatever glitters beyond the edge of our means" is doing us no favors, Frederic Morton writes in the LA Times. "Our passion for the out-of-reach is the very dynamic that (to use a long- familiar phrase) 'has made... More »

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Barack Obama • New Deal • American dream

OPINION

 Arts Need a New Deal, Too 

Cultural anthropologist suggests President Obama appoint arts cabinet

Jan 21, 09 7:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Fifty years after FDR’s Public Works Art Project paid and promoted American talent, President Obama has people dreaming of a new deal for arts, cultural anthropologist Patricia Williams Lessane writes in Ebony. While division spawned the Harlem Renaissance, Lessane is hopeful an arts resurgence would be “born out... More »

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art • FDR • New Deal • Obama administration • President Obama • public works • Harlem Renaissance

analysis

FDR 'Prolonged' the Depression? Come On


Jan 2, 09 11:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News left one pundit scrambling for his history books last week after he dared to defend the New Deal. Supporting Congressional talk of a stimulus plan, David Sirota sat "mouth agape, deer in the headlights" as a commentator accused FDR's plan of prolonging the Great Depression. Sirota disagreed,... More »

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FDR • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • economic stimulus package

OPINION

Bailout Success Will Teach Wrong Lesson

Rescuing firms from mess they created will send message that bills don't need to be paid

Jan 1, 09 5:03 AM CST
(Newser) - America needs to learn some hard lessons that a $700 billion bailout of the economy isn't going to teach, David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post. If the the country manages to dodge a depression, the message will be that irresponsible behavior brings a rescue, and that bills don't need... More »

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US economy • New Deal • bailout • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout

OPINION

Obama Must Be a Goo-Goo:
Krugman

That's a good-government wonk, much like FDR

Dec 26, 08 9:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Clinton once declared that “the era of big government is over.” Barack Obama can’t do that, writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times. “Indeed, he has to be a goo-goo.” Goo-goo being a century-old term for “good government” proponents. FDR,... More »

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Barack Obama • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • economic stimulus package • President Obama

OPINION

 New Deal a  
 Good Example,
 But Not Perfect 

Obama must have 'audacity' FDR lacked

Nov 10, 08 10:01 AM CST
(Newser) - With the economy on the rocks, the New Deal is a hot topic. But FDR’s master plan almost failed, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, because "his economic policies were too cautious." In the end, "what saved the economy, and the New Deal, was... More »

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New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • economic stimulus package • economy • financial crisis • President Obama

 Public Works Eyed 
 as Economic Jumpstart 

Economists increasingly look to infrastructure spending for job creation

Nov 9, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Once dismissed as too slow to address America’s quick slide into crisis, New Deal-esque public works projects are becoming increasingly attractive as long-term economic troubles look likely to set in, the Los Angeles Times reports. Infrastructure spending will likely be a major component of the upcoming Obama-backed, multibillion-dollar stimulus... More »

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infrastructure • New Deal • economic stimulus package • job • financial crisis

GLOSSIES

Obama's First 100: Channel FDR, Avoid Clinton Foibles

Democrats hoping for 'new New Deal,' but financial crisis will be drag on any efforts

Oct 27, 08 7:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Up big in the polls with Election Day fast approaching, “a lot of people around Barack are reading books about FDR’s first 100 days,” one Obama insider tells New York. Aides have gone beyond simply planning his White House transition; they’ve drafted a book-length administration blueprint,... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Rahm Emanuel • Obama 2008 • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • transition • Election 2008 • 100 days

McCain's Housing Rescue Plan: What Is It? Is It New?

Candidate surprises with question-laden bailout proposal

Oct 8, 08 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s proposal to bail out homeowners by buying up their troubled mortgages, the only policy surprise in last night’s debate, left observers scrambling to understand how it was—if it was—different from the Treasury’s existing bailout plan. The proposal, fleshed out by the campaign, would... More »

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John McCain • mortgage • New Deal • McCain 2008 • subprime crisis • Election 2008 • bailout

ANALYSIS

FDIC May Need Its Own Bailout

Agency lacks funds to insure present level, much less proposed raise to $250K

Oct 2, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has quietly and effectively done its job safeguarding Americans’ money since 1933, but the financial crisis will thrust the agency into the spotlight, reports Big Money, Slate’s financial offshoot. The bailout bill increases the amount the FDIC insures, from $100,000 to $250,000,... More »

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Congress • Treasury Department • New Deal • credit crisis • FDIC • financial crisis • deposit insurance • Sheila Bair • checking account

analysis

 Left Has Won (Whoever Wins) 

The conservative counter-revolution has failed

Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of Goldwater and Buckley is not only washed up, Michael Lind writes in Salon, it  failed "completely, undeniably and irreversibly." The structure of 20th-century American liberalism is intact, if battered, he writes, and liberals should stop worrying so... More »

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climate change • health care • John McCain • New Deal • evangelicals • conservatism • Great Society

OPINION

Dem Primaries: A Referendum on Clintonism

Bill's legacy, deeper
than memory tells, will decide the nominee

Dec 23, 07 7:29 AM CST
(Newser) - The Democratic presidential primary contest will be “a judgment on the ‘90s,” writes the New York Times’ Matt Bai: The left is deeply conflicted about Bill Clinton and his "third way," and Hillary's “fortunes are bound up with his,” Bai says. "They... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Bill Clinton • New Deal • centrism • Clintonism • first lady

Call Me Russian FDR: Putin

Presenting himself as popular US prez to stay in power

Oct 19, 07 3:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin sees himself as Russia's Franklin Delano Roosevelt and is actively encouraging a cult around the Depression-slaying US leader to promote his own ambitions after his current term as president expires. Admiring profiles and documentaries about Roosevelt in the state-controlled media are indoctrinating Russians as Putin maneuvers to stay... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • New Deal • prime minister • President • third term • Komsomolskaya Pravda • RTR • Dmitry Oreshkin • Sergey Nikulin • Gleb Pavlovsky • Vladislav Surkov

The Rise and Fall of Rove

Boy genius couldn't build an unbeatable GOP coalition

Aug 14, 07 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove may have been the but-for cause of the Bush presidency, but his dreams of using it to build a generation-long Republican hegemony that would undo the New Deal have been unquestionably dashed. Bush's boy genius envisioned a "permanent majority," but the Washington Post considers the reasons... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • Republican • GOP • New Deal

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