new deal

The Social Security program, as it exists in the United States, was created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his liberal New Deal policy package.

Then in 1938, the first federal minimum wage law was established in American history as part of the New Deal, though restaurant workers weren’t included in the reform.

Roosevelt’s presidency established a new principle in American politics through the New Deal, that government exists to succor all its people, not just the wealthy.

“At least from the time of the New Deal, the non-college group actually tended to be more Democratic.”

Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when Democrats had landslide victories among working-class voters who have been migrating in droves to the GOP since.