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Protestors march outside the White House on May 8, 1933, urging President Roosevelt to intervene in the Scottsboro case. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)
** The Truth about Race and the New Deal
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For generations, FDR’s success in reshaping the American economy has been a model for what transformative, public-minded policymaking can look like.
His failings have been just as instructive. As we explore in our research, that transformation did not include all Americans ([link removed]) , and explicitly excluded or compromised the well-being of Black Americans in ways that still reverberate throughout society.
In a new special exhibition, “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962,” ([link removed]) the FDR Presidential Library and Museum offers critical perspectives on the administration’s policies and practices, and of the Roosevelts themselves.
And as Jennifer Schuessler writes about the exhibition for the New York Times, ([link removed]) “. . . it makes one thing clear: Where opportunities expanded, it was because Black Americans demanded it.”
“Presidential libraries aren’t just about the name on the building,” FDR Library Director William A. Harris told Schuessler. “They have to tell the story of everybody.”
Black activism was, and is, central to that story.
Read more of the New York Times’s coverage: “At the Roosevelt Library, an Unflinching Look at Race.” ([link removed])
** How Industrial Policy Actually Works
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“[W]hat we were promised by neoliberalism is not what we’re getting . . . leading to this resurgence of industrial policy as a means of managing the economy in a way that leads to actual prosperity,” Roosevelt’s Isabel Estevez says on a new episode of Pitchfork Economics ([link removed]) .
New research has positive things to say about that approach.
In a working paper, Dani Rodrik, Réka Juhász, and Roosevelt Fellow Nathan Lane synthesize recent industrial policy work that finds “such policies—or historical accidents that mimic their effects—have often led to large, seemingly beneficial long-term effects in the structure of economic activity,” as they write for Project Syndicate ([link removed]) .
Learn more in their new paper ([link removed]) , and check out all of Roosevelt’s industrial policy research ([link removed]) .
** What We’re Reading
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Is Good News Finally Good News Again? [feat. Roosevelt’s Mike Konczal] ([link removed]) - New York Times
Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz ([link removed]) - Scientific American
To Fix the Labor Shortage, Economists Point to Women—and Better Childcare ([link removed]) - Axios
In a Push for Race-Neutral Policies, Black Americans Will Be Left Behind, Experts Fear ([link removed]) - Capital B
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