In his timely piece published by The Guardian, Professor Rauchway points to similarities between our current unemployment crisis and the Great Depression that devastated the world economy nearly 90 years ago. Rauchway argues that, like the Great Depression, our current situation "demands intervention not only to resume trade and unemployment, but also to preserve the institutions we cherish," just as the New Deal had done generations ago.

Read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/20/roosevelts-new-deal#comments