Read more New Deal stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9196/new-deal.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:13:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71110/put-new-stimulus-to-work-for-unemployed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEconomists are buzzing about a "new normal" of higher unemployment and wage stagnation post-recession, but Americans shouldn't resign themselves to a mediocre economy, writes Harold Meyerson. Downturns triggered by banking crises usually cause higher rates of unemployment for longer periods than normal downturns, but the cycle can be broken with...http://www.newser.com/story/71110/put-new-stimulus-to-work-for-unemployed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 2:08:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68511/learn-from-fdr-obama-and-show-some-backbone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs President Obama prepares to pull away from a public health care option, it shows not just that he's giving in to his opponents, writes Jean Edward Smith; worse, it "suggests that the Democratic Party has forgotten how to govern." In an op-ed for the New York Times , the FDR...http://www.newser.com/story/68511/learn-from-fdr-obama-and-show-some-backbone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 7:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67782/dems-must-reconnect-to-populist-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTo save health care reform, Democrats need to remember what the real issue is: making the government work for average people, writes Thomas Frank for the Wall Street Journal . Health care is the Democrats' signature issue because it is quintessentially populist—a leveling of the playing field in the name...http://www.newser.com/story/67782/dems-must-reconnect-to-populist-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 2:07:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56761/anti-new-deal-book-is-gops-new-bible.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor the Republican Party, looking for any kind of traction for its opposition to President Obama’s stimulus spending, anti-New Deal book The Forgotten Man is a godsend, Politico reports. Author Amity Shlaes suggests, in what some call revisionist history, that FDR’s plan, pushed by government bureaucrats on a tottering economy,...http://www.newser.com/story/56761/anti-new-deal-book-is-gops-new-bible.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 10:19:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53232/dream-small-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American dream sounds great, but the relentless pursuit of "whatever glitters beyond the edge of our means" is doing us no favors, Frederic Morton writes in the LA Times . "Our passion for the out-of-reach is the very dynamic that (to use a long- familiar phrase) 'has made this country...http://www.newser.com/story/53232/dream-small-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Mar 2009 11:45:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48264/arts-need-a-new-deal-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFifty years after FDR’s Public Works Art Project paid and promoted American talent, President Obama has people dreaming of a new deal for arts, cultural anthropologist Patricia Williams Lessane writes in Ebony . While division spawned the Harlem Renaissance, Lessane is hopeful an arts resurgence would be “born out of inter-racial...http://www.newser.com/story/48264/arts-need-a-new-deal-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Jan 2009 19:40:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46894/fdr-prolonged-the-depression-come-on.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFox News left one pundit scrambling for his history books last week after he dared to defend the New Deal. Supporting Congressional talk of a stimulus plan, David Sirota sat "mouth agape, deer in the headlights" as a commentator accused FDR's plan of prolonging the Great Depression. Sirota disagreed, and...http://www.newser.com/story/46894/fdr-prolonged-the-depression-come-on.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Jan 2009 23:29:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46771/bailout-success-will-teach-wrong-lesson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica needs to learn some hard lessons that a $700 billion bailout of the economy isn't going to teach, David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post . If the the country manages to dodge a depression, the message will be that irresponsible behavior brings a rescue, and that bills don't need...http://www.newser.com/story/46771/bailout-success-will-teach-wrong-lesson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Jan 2009 5:03:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46313/obama-must-be-a-goo-goo-krugman.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Clinton once declared that “the era of big government is over.” Barack Obama can’t do that, writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times. “Indeed, he has to be a goo-goo.” Goo-goo being a century-old term for “good government” proponents. FDR, for example, was a classic goo-goo. He expanded...http://www.newser.com/story/46313/obama-must-be-a-goo-goo-krugman.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Dec 2008 9:07:01 CST