Moneybox FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days It took Roosevelt a while to create the welfare state and cement his legacy.

FDR and The New Deal During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired.

Advantages for Biden, because the New Deal remains the repository of cherished Democratic Party values and progressive achievement even today, eight decades after FDR’s inauguration.

Titled "New York and the First New Deal," letters and artifacts underscore the ways in which FDR used his governorship as both policy precursor and political springboard to the presidency.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.

The phrase "new deal" came into the English lexicon long before its mention at the 1932 Democratic convention that propelled Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House. Mark Twain and Henry James ...

During his first presidential press conference, Barack Obama defended federal economic intervention, stating "there are several who have suggested that FDR was wrong to intervene back in the New Deal.

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same? We look back at a moment in U.S. history when the federal government remade its relationship with the economy.

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

First, the nominee needed solid New Deal credentials; he had to be a "thumping, evangelical New Dealer," said Roosevelt (and Black was certainly that, having voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt ...

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.