The New Deal for storytellers

Almost one hundred years ago, the federal government launched a program to employ out-of-work writers. It was 1935, the middle of the Great Depression. About 18 percent of Americans were unemployed—down from a peak of 25 percent but still high. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had introduced his New Deal in 1933, which aimed to provide […]
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