No, Blair's Britain had a minimum wage, a New Deal for the unemployed and spent serious money on health and education. |
American politics has assumed the form of a sweeping social reaction, aimed at overturning the reformist legacy of the New Deal. |
Even though Roosevelt never embraced socialism, aspects of the New Deal were clearly socialistic, as Peter Temin has noted. |
Congress got busy spending money on New Deal legislation, creating make-work programs to try to end the Depression. |
Meanwhile, the Government has extended its New Deal employment scheme to the same age group. |
Some uncles were devoted New Deal Democrats and others true-blue Republicans. |