New Deal
noun
: the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also
: the period of this program
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The case involved a conservative member of the FTC, whom President Franklin D. Roosevelt saw as standing in the way of his New Deal policies.
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Andrea Hsu, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
This is significant investment in support for people who are long term unemployed and excluded from the labor market, more than the initial investment in New Deal for Disabled People from the last Labour government.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
The bulk of these artworks were created during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Depression-era New Deal, which fostered four public art programs as part of its grand-scale, job-creating Works Progress Administration, and resulted in some unquestionably great public art.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
This level of legal conflict between the judicial and executive branches has not been seen since the courts ruled against some of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies in the 1940s.
—Khel Gordhan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Andrea Hsu, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
This is significant investment in support for people who are long term unemployed and excluded from the labor market, more than the initial investment in New Deal for Disabled People from the last Labour government.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
The bulk of these artworks were created during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Depression-era New Deal, which fostered four public art programs as part of its grand-scale, job-creating Works Progress Administration, and resulted in some unquestionably great public art.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
This level of legal conflict between the judicial and executive branches has not been seen since the courts ruled against some of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies in the 1940s.
—Khel Gordhan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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“New Deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/New%20Deal. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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