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* [http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/wpa/timeline.html Interactive Timeline]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/wpa/timeline.html Interactive Timeline]
: This interactive timeline highlights selected events in the development of the WPA during the Great Depression as recounted in ''[http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/wpa/ AMERICAN-MADE]''.
: This interactive timeline highlights selected events in the development of the WPA during the Great Depression as recounted in ''[http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/wpa/ AMERICAN-MADE]''.
=== [[wikipedia:Works Progress Administration|Works Progress Administration]] ([[wikipedia:Works Progress Administration|WPA]]) ===
* [http://www.wpatoday.org/Home_Page.html WPA Today]
: This project's mission is to help preserve the history of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and to promote the idea of a new WPA for today's long-term unemployed population.


=== [[wikipedia:Second New Deal|Second New Deal]] ===
=== [[wikipedia:Second New Deal|Second New Deal]] ===
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* [http://www.wpatoday.org/WPA_News.html WPA Today: WPA & WPA-type News]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/consumer-spending-economic-recovery_b_1591454.html Why The Economy Can't Get Out of First Gear]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/consumer-spending-economic-recovery_b_1591454.html Why The Economy Can't Get Out of First Gear]
: We might learn something from history. During the 1920s, income concentrated at the top. By 1928, the top 1 percent was raking in an astounding 23.94 percent of the total (close to the 23.5 percent the top 1 percent got in 2007) according to analyses of tax records by my colleague Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty. At that point the bubble popped and we fell into the Great Depression. But then came the Wagner Act, requiring employers to bargain in good faith with organized labor. Social Security and unemployment insurance. The Works Projects Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps. A national minimum wage. Taxes were hiked on the very rich. And in 1941 America went to war -- a vast mobilization that employed every able-bodied adult American, and put money in their pockets. By 1953, the top 1 percent of Americans raked in only 9.9 percent of total income. Most of the rest went to a growing middle class -- whose members fueled the greatest economic boom in the history of the world. Get it? We won't get out of first gear until the middle class regains the bargaining power it had in the first three decades after World War II to claim a much larger share of the gains from productivity growth.
: We might learn something from history. During the 1920s, income concentrated at the top. By 1928, the top 1 percent was raking in an astounding 23.94 percent of the total (close to the 23.5 percent the top 1 percent got in 2007) according to analyses of tax records by my colleague Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty. At that point the bubble popped and we fell into the Great Depression. But then came the Wagner Act, requiring employers to bargain in good faith with organized labor. Social Security and unemployment insurance. The Works Projects Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps. A national minimum wage. Taxes were hiked on the very rich. And in 1941 America went to war -- a vast mobilization that employed every able-bodied adult American, and put money in their pockets. By 1953, the top 1 percent of Americans raked in only 9.9 percent of total income. Most of the rest went to a growing middle class -- whose members fueled the greatest economic boom in the history of the world. Get it? We won't get out of first gear until the middle class regains the bargaining power it had in the first three decades after World War II to claim a much larger share of the gains from productivity growth.

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