Roosevelt’s vision for a new America In the early 1930s, Roosevelt was confronted by a social and economic catastrophe – the Great Depression. His genius was to understand that a bold, radical reshaping of the economy and society was required to overcome the crisis and forestall the rise of alternatives to democracy from both the right and left.
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In the early 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt was confronted by a social and economic catastrophe – the Great Depression. The core of Roosevelt’s New Deal was redistribution of wealth in America from the few to the many. He ran large budget deficits, increased government spending and taxation, imposed regulations to rein in the worst excesses of the banks, and commissioned massive public and social works programs.
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2021-07-06 02:05:19 GMT2021-07-06 10:05:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, July 6 (Xinhua) Voter approval of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has fallen amid COVID-19 outbreaks across the country.
According to a survey published by The Guardian on Tuesday, approval of Morrison has dropped from 57 percent in June to 51 percent while disapproval rose from 36 to 40 percent.
Support for the federal government s handling of the pandemic fell from 53 to 44 percent while the number of those who described the response as poor increased from 24 to 30 percent.
The poll of more than 1,000 voters was taken as more than 12 million Australians were thrust into lockdown recently in response to coronavirus outbreaks across the country.