For a historically brief period brought about to some degree by the worst economic depression in U.S. history, there was a burst of progress in the economic and social life of the American people.
While the times don’t track exactly, the 1930s brought us the minimum wage, unemployment insurance, Social Security, federal jobs programs, taxation of corporations and the rich and mass unionization.
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