Friday, June 22, 2012

USA - Voice of America: At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure

USA - Voice of America
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At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure
Jun 22nd 2012, 10:00

In an effort to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt's so-called "New Deal" administration created a bevy of government agencies designed to help Americans regain and maintain their economic footing. The New Deal produced the social-security system, farm subsidies and jobs for struggling workers, who cleared forests, built highways, wrote guidebooks to the states, photographed rural families and dust-blown towns, and created public ...

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