The New Deal was born exactly 90 years ago, on FDR’s Inauguration Day, March 4, 1933. In his inaugural speech (the one famous for saying Americans had “nothing to fear but fear itself”), he ...

Feature; April 2, 2009 ‘Social Security’ Under the New Deal ‘Social Security’ Under the New Deal The New Deal delivers its greatest gift to the American people, but there’s a catch: they ...

Nearly 100 years after the Great Depression, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we ...

The New Deal's Debut Wasn't Smooth Sailing, ... challenged President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1936 election on a platform of repealing Social Security—before the program had even begun.

Roosevelt’s first 100 days were really the disaster-response period of his presidency, the moment when the new chief executive grabbed the fire hose and started putting out the flames that had ...

While FDR is widely credited for the New Deal, Frances Perkins has been largely forgotten for her vital contributions to the largest social programs of our nation’s history.

From 1938 to 2012, creating what can be considered a New Deal 2.0, presidents and Congresses from both parties extended Social Security and the minimum wage to groups originally left out, thus ...

The Woman Behind The New Deal : Throughline From Social Security and the minimum wage to exit signs and fire escapes, Frances Perkins transformed how people in the U.S. lived and worked.