Topic: Franklin D. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's grim warnings about the state of the U.S. economy could backfire on him by undermining a key goal of his re-election campaign -- restoring the confidence of Americans.In his drive to push a $447 billion jobs ...
Prescriptions for economic recovery take varied formsThe Associated Press asked people around the country to share their ideas on jump-starting the economy. Some responses:More stimulus: Carolyn Morrison is a Wake County, N.C., school board member who has spent more than 45 years ...
Prescriptions for economic recovery take varied formsThe Associated Press asked people around the country to share their ideas on jump-starting the economy. Some responses:More stimulus: Carolyn Morrison is a Wake County, N.C., school board member who has spent more than 45 years ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus bill) was signed into law on February 17th, 2009. With the U.S. national debt at nearly $13 trillion, we can't afford to spend any more money. The bill expands government influence and power ...
Today, the US Congress prepares to hopefully present astimulus package for President Obama?s signature. In1933, at the start of the New Deal, unemployment was at 25%; by 1938,unemployment had shrunk to 10%, an obvious sign of success. From 1933 until1937, when the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has begun to climb out of the worst downturn since the 1930 Great Depression but still needs additional steps by the federal government to stem a crisis in the job market, a senior economic adviser to ...
The Democratic defeat in yesterday's Massachusetts Senate race puts a punctuation mark on the grinding erosion of support for the Obama Administration and its economic policy in a tough first year. Clearly voters were sending the Administration a message that America is ...
According to press reports, the Obama administration plans to put forward a budget on Feb. 1 containing significant deficit reduction measures. They argue that there is a danger we will make the same mistake that Franklin Roosevelt made in 1937, which crippled ...
Shades of FDR: Obama comes up with varied approach to confront worst recession since the 1930sFranklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because ...
Two things we now know didn't work during the Great Depression, besides millions of willing and able bodied Americans were stimulus spending and the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Not exactly the environment in which you want to try to restart ...
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Archives FDR Papers
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President First Pitches
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FDR Papers
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President Franklin Roosevelt 1933 Inauguration
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt giving the Pearl Harbor Address - "a date ...2008-03-20 -
FDR 1936 I welcome their hatred
Extract from famous 1936 speech in Madison square garden. That ...2009-01-15
