When you think of places that serve bad food, the White House probably doesn't cross your mind. People who visited when FDR was president thought otherwise.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, the nation was reeling from the Great Depression and was dissatisfied with the previous administration’s reluctance to ...

Using 1929 data, the two researchers calculated what wages and prices would have been had without the New Deal, and then compared them to actual wages and prices at the time. Their findings were ...

A groundbreaking study by UCLA economists Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian demonstrates that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s excessively pro-labor, anti-competitive New Deal actually prolonged for seven ...

When the United States was deep in the grip of the Great Depression, families across the country needed comfort. They wanted something familiar at the dinner table that didn’t drain already tight ...

Discover how the New Deal influenced the U.S. economy and its lasting impact on social welfare, income inequality, and ...

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... 80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt's death ...

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I. Foundations -- Beginnings -- A season in the wilderness -- The deluge -- II. The New Deal -- "Jobs is the cry" -- The New Deal's "lost legacy" -- From fusion to confusion -- New dealer for the ...