Monday, January 12, 2026

New Deal Rugs: Craftsmanship, employment, recreation, job training, therapy, thrift, and social welfare

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Above: The description for this 1941 photograph reads: "Farm worker's wife making hooked rug in sewing class. A WPA (Work Projects...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Republicans raised my healthcare costs, after cutting taxes for themselves and their wealthy donors

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Above: A WPA poster, highlighting the New Deal principle of affordable healthcare. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress . Lower taxes ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The New Deal Built Hospitals in Missouri. The 1% Are Shutting Them Down.

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Above: This graphic shows 20 hospitals built in Missouri from 1933 to 1939 with funding from the New Deal's Public Works Administration...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Disaster relief: New Deal action vs. modern apathy

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Above: "Flood waters," a lithograph by Paul Weller (1912-2000), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, betwee...
Monday, April 21, 2025

The New Deal delivered the childcare that Americans aren't permitted to have today

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Above: This map shows nursery schools in the United States funded by the New Deal's Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). At ...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

How the New Deal created a "new era" of improved sanitation in West Virginia; and how we're forbidden to know about it today

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Above: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out sanitation projects all across the United States, and especially in rural areas....
Friday, March 21, 2025

The New Deal distributed food to West Virginians in need. Trump's USDA is stopping such distribution, to facilitate tax cuts for the rich.

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Above: Here we see West Virginia benefiting from the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC) in 1936. We also see the...