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The Government Can Create Jobs

The Republicans keep saying the government can’t create jobs. That’s baloney.

Tens of thousands of unemployed Americans were glad to find work under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Depression-era New Deal programs of the 1930s. Their labor benefited the whole country, too.

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