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Hey listeners, Leah here. We're taking a break this week, but we wanted to share a podcast episode from Marketplace,

your daily download for essential economic news.

On this episode, host Kai Rizdahl presents the Breaking Ground series, examining how the

New Deal changed American society and what policymakers can learn from the past.

If you enjoy this episode, listen to and subscribe to Marketplace

wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy listening, and we'll be back next week with a new episode.

You know, sometimes in this economy,

you've got to look to the past to see what the future might hold.

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl. It is always to have you along, everybody. We are only

going to do one story on this show today. And as we get going, I'm just going to say this. I need

you to trust me. We are going to talk about this economy, of course, because

that's what we do. We're just going to do it a little differently.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. His campaign promise, a new deal. His campaign song. Happy days are here again.

All right, wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop, because I know. I know. You've heard it all before.

Great Depression, FDR, the New Deal, and then, boom. Social Security, federal deposit insurance, airports, roads, bridges, and more. But hear me out.

The New Deal changed the relationship of the government to this economy forever. There was the government and the

economy before the New Deal, and there was the government and the economy before the New Deal, and there was the

government in the economy after the New Deal. And right now, President Biden, in complicated,

...