Americans Didn’t Need The Original “New Deal”
28th July 2019
We have heard much this year about how much the country needs a Green New Deal to reverse the negative effects of climate change, ensure economic security, revamp the nation’s transportation system, restore damaged ecosystems, secure a sustainable environment, and achieve justice and equality. Overlooked in all of the analyses of the Green New Deal is that Americans didn’t need the original New Deal.
Previous recessions had recovered in two or three years; the New Deal turned the 1929 recession into the Great Depression that dragged on for over a decade.