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Time For a New Plan: Frightening Jobless Numbers Show Flaws in GOP Austerity Agenda

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 8, 2011.

While Obama pushes for a deal on the debt ceiling, jobs numbers make plain that the focus in Washington is in the wrong place: jobs, not deficits, are the crisis.

How a Public Jobs Program Could Put America Back on Track

Julianne Malveaux, The Progressive. November 6, 2009.

The same nation that created a Works Progress Administration in the 1930s should create another one in the 21st century.

FDR Didn't Govern from 'the Center' -- Neither Should Obama

Gray Brechin, AlterNet. December 18, 2008.

We can't forget what bold and ingenious leadership can accomplish against the caution of low expectations in harsh economic times.

Politically Incorrect Solutions: What About a New Deal-Style Jobs Program?

Ryan A. Dodd, Dollars and Sense. April 14, 2008.

The idea that the government in a capitalist economy should provide jobs for the unemployed is not new.

FDR's Democratic Propaganda

Stephen Duncombe, The Nation. March 26, 2008.

Through homey "fireside chats," the aristocratic Roosevelt recast himself as a plain-talking everyman.