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New Deal: An example for today?
When Gray Brechin decided several years ago to develop a catalog of thousands of New Deal projects built in the 1930s, one of his goals was to show how government could help Americans when it embraced a humanitarian ethos.
At the time, Brechin, a UC Berkeley geographer, could not have known how much his effort would be relevant to the debate being waged in America today over the extent to which government should aid the least fortunate among us when a growing gap divides the top 1 percent and the rest of us.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/27/6351944/new-deal-an-example-for-today.html#storylink=cpy
I thought this was pretty interesting. Talks about how so much good came from the New Deal.
