President Trump has yet to announce his trillion-dollar plan to improve infrastructure across the U.S., something he’s been talking about since the campaign.
If it happens, it could be the biggest infrastructure push in the U.S. in decades — perhaps comparable to the most famous overhaul in American history. That came eight decades ago, under President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Works Progress Administration.
“It did just about everything,” Gray Brechin, geographer and founder of the online archive The Living New Deal, tells Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson of the WPA. “It built roads, sewers, water systems, airports, zoos, libraries, city halls. It’s all over the country. It’s just that you don’t really notice it.”
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