FDR vs. the Great Recession

We must tackle four big issues to revive our economy

Friday, November 27, 2009

By Stephen Herzenberg

I keep seeing this image of Franklin Roosevelt rolling over in his grave.

What might have our late, great President perturbed? Today's debate about how to get the economy going again.

Since the start of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy has shed more than 7 million jobs, 208,000 of them in Pennsylvania. We are living through the deepest economic contraction since the Great Depression.