After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...

Major Acts Roosevelt’s creation of multiple new governmental agencies within his New Deal program was unprecedented and set the stage for later presidents to take on added responsibilities and work ...

Donald Trump is seeking to do what several Republican predecessors failed to do: reverse the promise and the premises of ...

Passed by Congress, the law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part ...

Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration.

Roosevelt brought a progressive movement ... He used Jeffersonian and Jacksonian language to promote his New Deal programs, which is ironic given that the progressive theory of governance was ...

Besides its immediate impact, Roosevelt’s New Deal set the example for future ... against “unelected bureaucrats” to slash programs that help veterans, farmers, poor people and the elderly.

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...