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Re:Britain's Next Megaproject: A Coast-To-Coast Forest by mkingston on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:03PM (#16119969)
Related to that, I recently found out about the Civilian Conservation Corps[1], which I thought was very cool. TL; DR during great depression US gov employed people on conservation projects for ~550USD in 2015 dollars per month.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

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Re:Britain's Next Megaproject: A Coast-To-Coast Forest by forapurpose on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:26AM (#16121810)
There were many other similar programs. If you are interested, an excellent single-volume, highly regarded history is William Leuchtenburg's Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1940. It's not a new book, but last I checked there was nothing better:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328065.Franklin_D_Roosev...

Reading histories can really change perspectives. Reading it I discovered that much of the rhetoric in the 1930s was similar to today: For example, from the right that regulation would crush business and welfare programs were unaffordable, etc. A big difference was that from the left, Roosevelt responded aggressively and communicated persuasively, while today's Democrats do neither - consider Obama, for example. (Whatever you think of the issues and politicians, I think that's a non-partisan factual observation.)

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