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The New Deal was an array of economic programs and reforms implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration during the Great Depression to restart the economy and support workers. While it played a significant role in creating the American middle class, Black workers were almost entirely excluded from it, so it contributed to the racial wealth gap.
New Deal Quotes in The Sum of Us
The The Sum of Us quotes below are all either spoken by New Deal or refer to New Deal. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The big and small public works our country needs now should be designed explicitly to foster contact across cultural divides, sending urban youth to rural areas and vice versa, and explicitly building teams that reflect the youth generation’s astonishing diversity. An analysis Demos did in the middle of the Great Recession found that one hundred billion dollars spent directly hiring people could create 2.6 million public service jobs; spending the same amount on tax cuts trickles down to just one hundred thousand jobs.
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New Deal Term Timeline in The Sum of Us
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Chapter 2: Racism Drained the Pool
...each. In the 1930s, the government began insuring mortgages, but only in white neighborhoods. The New Deal ’s worker protection laws, the G.I. Bill’s college tuition grants, the federal highway system, and...
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Chapter 4: Ignoring the Canary
...all the financial tools that ensured prosperity for white Americans, including the banking system, the New Deal , and federally-guaranteed mortgages. In fact, during the Great Depression, an agency called the Home...
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