They were both totally dedicated to the New Deal, FDR and work-for-pay rather than straight relief payments. But their approaches were diametrically opposed and they heartily disliked each other.

FDR and The New Deal During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired.

Roosevelt’s first 100 days were really the disaster-response period of his presidency, the moment when the new chief executive grabbed the fire hose and started putting out the flames that had ...

Far from ending the Great Depression, the New Deal prolonged it and created several bouts of inflation in the 1930s. McAuliffe’s comparison of Biden to FDR is right, however, though for the ...

80 years after FDR's death, Trump cuts threaten his legacy Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression ...

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same? We look back at a moment in U.S. history when the federal government remade its relationship with the economy.

FDR appointed all people close to him who he deemed loyal and supportive of the new Deal. Indeed, Byrne stepped down from the Court to take a position in the administration.

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

MSNBC 'Marketcrafters' looks at the legacy of FDR's 'New Deal' Posted: April 24, 2025 | Last updated: April 24, 2025. Author Chris Hughes joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Marketcrafters ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.