A look back at the New Deal, and its projects that made America.
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American RadioWorks :: June 5th, 2009
The New New Deal: Audio: Bridge to Somewhere
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AMERICAN RADIOWORKS :: June 5th, 2009
The New New Deal: Overview
Blueprint America -- with American RadioWorks on public radio — looks at the new New Deal: President Barack Obama wants to create jobs by building infrastructure, but so did another president. Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to put people to work by building roads, bridges, dams, sewers, schools, hospitals and even ski jumps. The structures that New Deal agencies built transformed America.
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AMERICAN RADIOWORKS :: June 5th, 2009
The New New Deal: Civilian Conservation Corp
The Civilian Conservation Corps was the first and most popular New Deal program. Millions of young men who could not find work signed up to be part of Roosevelt's "forest army." They planted trees, fought forest fires, and built trails and buildings we still use today.
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AMERICAN RADIOWORKS :: June 5th, 2009
The New New Deal: Works Progress Administration
The WPA was one of Roosevelt's most controversial programs. It put millions of people to work doing things like painting murals, sewing clothes, running nursery schools and serving school lunches. But most WPA workers built things. Their legacy is all around us.
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AMERICAN RADIOWORKS :: June 5th, 2009
The New New Deal: Public Works Administration
The Public Works Administration left an enormous legacy of public works. PWA workers built projects in all but three counties in the United States, but many of the structures they left behind have no plaque mentioning the PWA. Americans use these structures every day without realizing where they came from.
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THE DIG :: February 12th, 2009
Building the National Infrastructure Bank: Infrastructure of the stimulus plan: Overall public works spending
What has often been referenced as a new New Deal, similar to initiatives instituted during the Great Depression, the following is a breakdown of federal funds from Congress' economic stimulus devoted to projects or spending that is related to or will affect infrastructure in the U.S.
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THE DIG :: December 9th, 2008
What happens after the stimulus package?
U.S. mayors on December 9, 2008, called on President-elect Obama to channel infrastructure spending directly to cities rather than state governments. Consequently, there could be a problem with how infrastructure projects receive funding once the next stimulus bill is passed. However, there may be some lessons to be learned from how the New Deal was managed.
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THE DIG :: October 16th, 2008
The Dig: A reNewed Deal?
Even before the bailout, a non-partisan initiative, Building America’s Future, had already called for a similar government expansion, but in funding infrastructure projects.
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