New Deal
noun
: the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also
: the period of this program
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Trump's record pace for action -- and lawsuits Trump is eager to change the federal government quickly in his mold, as Roosevelt did with his New Deal.
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Bart Jansen, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
The museum’s new space offers a permanent home for its roving presentations — now free of charge to visitors — which trace the history of public housing from its origins in the New Deal to the present day.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
In the 1930s, there was not just the New Deal, and not just the tumult of the Great Depression, but the emergence of a culture in America that was very different from what had come before, certainly what had existed in the 1920s.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the next Democratic president can call climate change a war and then just impose the Green New Deal by fiat.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
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Bart Jansen, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
The museum’s new space offers a permanent home for its roving presentations — now free of charge to visitors — which trace the history of public housing from its origins in the New Deal to the present day.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
In the 1930s, there was not just the New Deal, and not just the tumult of the Great Depression, but the emergence of a culture in America that was very different from what had come before, certainly what had existed in the 1920s.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the next Democratic president can call climate change a war and then just impose the Green New Deal by fiat.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
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“New Deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/New%20Deal. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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