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COVID & Unemployment

Today's conversations about work relief sound like those of the New Deal era

by Andie Corban

Jun 28, 2021

Professors Jason Scott Smith and Jessamyn Schaller look back at the Works Progress Administration's legacy.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who pushed through New Deal legislation in the 1930s to combat the Great Depression. Objections to the relief programs were raised then, as they are now.

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