Right wing commentators are lying about the New Deal
The latest talking point from the echo chamber is that the New Deal didn't create jobs, etc. The new chairman of the Republican Party, Rush Lim… er, I mean, Michael Steele, has been promoting this line.
Let me be kind and merely say that they're not… quite… being… honest.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the unemployment rate in 1933 was just…
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