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 ...
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...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

West Virginia lawmakers just voted to increase pollution in the state's waterways. By contrast, the New Deal provided West Virginians with clean drinking water.

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Above: The New Deal had thousands of projects to improve America's drinking water. Here is a map showing waterworks projects of the Pub...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Women's History Month: 10 Ways That American Women Helped Defeat Fascism During World War II

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The U.S. Defense Department has canceled observance of Women's History Month (and other "identity months," as it calls them)....
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