The New Deal performed over 1.5 million miles of roadwork. That's enough roadwork to go around the earth 60 times. Much of the work consisted of farm-to-market roads & secondary roads in rural areas. #roads #infrastructure #history #labor new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

10 million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, & Virginia receive electricity--at lower cost than investor-owned utilities--via the New Deal's TVA. #history #electricity #TVA #Tennessee #rural #farming new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

A farm scene oil painting, by Mary Winslow, created while she was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1936. Image from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. #art #artists #painting #farming #history #landscape

The New Deal provided direct employment, or provided the funds for direct employment, for about 4 million women, including work-relief jobs, regular federal employment, and high-level administrative posts. #women #history #jobs #labor new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

The New Deal created over 600 million clothes, quilts, mattresses and other textiles, mostly for lower-income Americans. #history #sewing #quilts #quilting #clothes #clothing #the_general_welfare new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

The New Deal created about 1,990 new ice skating facilities for Americans to enjoy. #skating #history #winter #recreation #exercise new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

If you'd like to see the old Social Security Bldg (now the "Wilbur J. Cohen Bldg") in D.C. preserved, consider signing our petition. The building houses New Deal art and is also a symbol of a gov't that is of, by, and for the people. #preservation #history #art www.change.org/p/save-the-w...

The New Deal constructed at least 310 miles of new ski trails, 113 new ski jumps, and 56 new toboggan slides: new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-... The New Deal's massive recreation program brought Americans together and improved physical fitness. #history #skiing #recreation

The New Deal's Soil Conservation Service was the driving force behind the development of "conservation districts." Today, there are over 3,000 such districts, all across the U.S. and its territories. #conservation #history #environment new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

The New Deal created and displayed about 127,639 easel-type paintings, thereby providing art for We the People to own and enjoy, regardless of income or wealth. #art #history #artists #painting new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

Proud that I've had dozens of students submit projects that have been published by @livingnewdeal.bsky.social. It's such a great teaching tool and community resource.

The New Deal planted more than 8.2 million bushels of oysters and helped revive a dying industry. #oysters #seafood #industry #business new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-...

The New Deal created 18,815 sculptures for the American public, such as this one made for the University of Oregon, by Louise Pritchard, in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1937. new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-... #history #art #artists #sculptures

The New Deal assisted 20 million people through its Food Stamp Plan, 1939-1943. It was the original such program, and provided the foundation for what we now know as the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (SNAP). new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-... #food #SNAP #history

The New Deal helped reduce illiteracy with WPA classes in reading and writing. #history #education #literacy #teaching new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

The New Deal had more than 102,000 projects to construct or improve educational buildings --> schools, colleges, libraries, dorms, vocational facilities, etc. new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-... #education #schools #colleges #learning

The New Deal served over 1.2 billion free or low-cost school lunches, and improved food-handling methods and standards along the way. #history #food #schools #lunch #children new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

The New Deal built over 2.8 million sanitary privies. Though ridiculed, the privies reduced illness and death from diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, and hookworm. #health #sanitation #disease #history new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

The New Deal had over 1,100 projects (& probably far more - cumulative statistics are hard to come by) to build or improve cemeteries. Many cemeteries are neglected today, & could use similar work. #cemeteries #genealogy #family #ancestors new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

The New Deal built over 400 new firehouses, and had over 3,800 other projects to improve existing firehouses. #firefighting #firehouses #firefighters new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

The New Deal had over 190,000 projects to build, improve, and maintain bridges. #bridges #infrastructure new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

Millions of low-income Americans received free dental examinations and treatments, thanks to New Deal programs, especially the WPA: new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... #dentist #healthcare #history

One more month! In DC thru Aug 17, enter my favorite space & check out "Pictures of Belonging" at Smithsonian American Art Museum: americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/.... It features 3 remarkable Japanese American artists. #mineokubo #mikihayakawa #hisakohibi #wpa @livingnewdeal.bsky.social

Between 1933 and 1943, the New Deal repaired over 106 million books: new-deal-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... #books #libraries #schools #history

Nursing homes, many already underfunded & understaffed, will likely be hit hard by Medicaid cuts: www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-... In his 2nd Bill of Rights speech, FDR advocated for "The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness..." Why didn't we listen?

Across the United States, the WPA created over 2,500 murals to beautify or liven up hospitals, schools, and other buildings. Here is one of those murals, by artist Gustave Dalstrom, in the Laurel School kindergarten, Wilmette, Illinois, between 1935 and 1943 (photo: Nat'l Archives). #history #art

On May 6, at 8pm EDT, I'll be joining @narosenblum.bsky.social of NYU to chat about the fabled past, worrisome present, and uncertain future of #FDR 's financial reforms. @livingnewdeal.bsky.social is hosting this webinar. We'd love to see you: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-next-c...

Proud that another #UWSP student in my US History survey had a project published on the @livingnewdeal.bsky.social, this time about Works Progress Administration improvements at the Wisconsin State Game Farm in Poynette. Check out the news story on Liam's work: www.hngnews.com/tribune_ente...

The New Deal provided many facilities & services for the blind & other folks with eye problems, e.g., new schools, job training & opportunities, talking books, books translated into Braille, eye exams, & transportation to trachoma clinics. #history #eyes @lauraharveysherley.bsky.social

Thinking of the wonderful @livingnewdeal.bsky.social maps of public works and thinking this is the Deadly Raw Deal map.

FDR died 80 years ago today: www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/80th-anniver... #history #presidents #NewDeal

High School students visit a Civilian Conservation Corps museum in West Virginia: www.wboy.com/news/harriso... #history #conservation

The Living New Deal is among the organizations directly hurt by recent slashing of NEH grants by DOGE & Trump Admin., which terminated our 2025 Digital Humanities Grant. We are saddened & troubled by what this injustice means for our staff, fellow grantees, the future of humanities, & our democracy.

"We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." --FDR, October 31, 1936

New Deal artworks are at risk of loss under the current administration: livingnewdeal.org/trump-admini... Below is "Depression," an aquatint by Frank D. Fousek (1913-1979), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1938 (image from Case Western Reserve Univ.). #art #history

Look at that, #UWSP students showing up in the local news, which profiled their research on the role the WPA played in building Anderson Park in Barron, Wisconsin! Their work had been published by @livingnewdeal.bsky.social! www.news-shield.com/news/free_ne...

Rural Texas has a shocking lack of public health infrastructure: www.texastribune.org/2025/03/10/r... During the New Deal, the PWA, WPA, & other agencies improved public health in Texas. The PWA built many hospitals, incl. one for Quanah, in rural Hardeman County. #healthcare #Texas #hospitals

With a number of methods to improve wildfire response time--e.g., lookout towers, truck trails to remote areas, firebreaks, more water resources, and sheer manpower--the CCC greatly reduced acreage burned (U.S. Forest Service reports, FY 1934-1942). #history #wildfires #forests #firefighters

The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)

"Barn and Signboard," an artwork by Aaron Bohrod (1907-1992), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1936. (Image courtesy of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art) #art #history #farming