{"id":655,"date":"2009-06-05T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:36:11","slug":"the-new-new-deal-radio-bridge-to-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/video\/the-new-new-deal-radio-bridge-to-somewhere\/655\/","title":{"rendered":"[RADIO] Bridge to Somewhere &#8212; A look back at the New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-655-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/full.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/full.mp3\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/full.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&#8220;This great nation will endure as it has endured,&#8221; said President   Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the country reeled from the Great Depression in the 1930s. &#8220;Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/reports\/profiles-from-the-recession\/radio-bridge-to-somewhere-a-look-back-at-the-new-deal\/655\/attachment\/200x200usa_work_program-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/06\/200x200usa_work_program.jpg\" alt=\"200x200usa_work_program\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/06\/200x200usa_work_program.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/06\/200x200usa_work_program-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FDR created jobs by building things. His New Deal transformed America.<\/p>\n<p>Blueprint America &#8212; with American RadioWorks on public radio &#8212; looks back at the Great Depression as America again undergoes hard times in the present day with the Great Recession. President Barack Obama has renewed some of FDR&#8217;s New Deal thinking &#8212; job creation by building. <\/p>\n<p>FDR put people to work by investing in roads, bridges, dams, sewers, schools, hospitals and even ski jumps. The structures that made America the country we live in today.<\/p>\n<p>We go back to some of these projects as a new generation looks forward to the hope of better times. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanradioworks.publicradio.org\/features\/infrastructure\/a1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/files\/2009\/05\/american_media-works.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bridge to Somewhere&#8221; is an American RadioWorks production as a part of Blueprint America. Produced by Catherine Winter and edited by Mary <\/em><em>Beth Kirchner; help from Scott Hunter. The <em>American RadioWorks<\/em> team includes Kate Moos, Ochen Kaylan, Craig Thorson, Marc Sanchez, Ellen Guettler, Emily Hanford, Suzanne Pekow, and Stephen Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/full.mp3 &#8220;This great nation will endure as it has endured,&#8221; said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the country reeled from the Great Depression in the 1930s. &#8220;Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.&#8221; FDR created jobs by building things. His New Deal transformed America. 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