The government's job creation plans are inspired by FDR's New Deal. But ministers have ignored its most lasting legacy: the boost it gave to writers, artists and intellectuals
A New Deal of the mind
Just before the Second World War, the Works Progress Administration, one of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal programmes, published a series of statistics about what it had done to get America back to work. In the previous three years the WPA had built 17,562 public buildings, 279,804 miles of roads, 29,084 bridges, 357 airports, more than 30,000 dams and 15,000 parks.
Although nothing on this scale has been considered for Britain ... read more
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