The Living New Deal in the News

When the Living New Deal project or our team members make the news, you’ll find it here.

• LND Director Richard A Walker Quoted in Morning Call

  • May 25, 2020
  • Living New Deal

  Lewis Hine // U.S. National Archives Living New Deal Director, Richard A Walker, was quoted in a piece published in the Morning Call. The story explores how the New Deal can serve as a model for the coronoavirus recovery plan. Read the piece here. ...
• LND Board Member Eric Rauchway Published in the Guardian

  • May 20, 2020
  • Living New Deal

  Unemployed men queuing fat a soup kitchen run by the Bahai Fellowship at 203 East 9th Street, New York, circa 1930. Photograph: FPG/Getty Images Living New Deal Board Member Eric Rauchway published an essay in the Guardian. Titled, "Roosevelt's New Deal offered hope in desperate times. We can do the same ...
• All in this Together

  • March 19, 2020
  • Living New Deal

  Dear Friends of the Living New Deal, Like you, we’re rattled. As of today at midnight, the 7 million people living in the Bay Area were put under “lock down” to arrest the spread of the corona virus. Schools, shops, offices, theaters, and other centers of public life have closed. That ...
• The Living New Deal Hits a Major Milestone: 10,000 New Deal Sites Mapped!

  • July 16, 2015
  • Gabriel Milner

  The Living New Deal project has been snowballing: More people are finding us, signing up for our newsletter, and volunteering to assist in the crowdsourcing of New Deal buildings, parks, artworks and all the rest. Our thanks to all of you for your support and help over the years: collecting, chronicling, ...