“‘You’ve got to think in terms of long-range investment and realize that these things are paying us back in lots of different ways,’ says Robert Leighninger, author of Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal. ‘Education, health, and recreation—all the stuff whose value is hard to calculate is important to our national well-being.'” Another shout-out to The Living New Deal and its team from Curbed, assessing the legacy of New Deal infrastructural projects in today’s political climate.