{"id":358170,"date":"2021-10-22T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=217626"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:53:04","slug":"new-deal-recycling-can-a-federal-writers-project-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/22\/new-deal-recycling-can-a-federal-writers-project-rise-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New Deal Recycling: Can a Federal Writers Project Rise Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this year\u2019s on-going Congressional deliberations about infrastructure spending, one popular New Deal program will hopefully make a come-back, with new branding and a 21st\u00a0century focus on clean energy. During the Great Depression, about three million young Americans, with few job prospects in the private sector, enlisted in the\u00a0Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),\u00a0part of the Works  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/new-deal-recycling-can-a-federal-writers-project-rise-again\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/new-deal-recycling-can-a-federal-writers-project-rise-again\/\">New Deal Recycling: Can a Federal Writers Project Rise Again?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/new-deal-recycling-can-a-federal-writers-project-rise-again\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this year\u2019s on-going Congressional deliberations about infrastructure spending, one popular New Deal program will hopefully make a come-back, with new branding and a 21st\u00a0century focus on clean energy. During the Great Depression, about three millio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358513,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358170\/revisions\/358513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}