New Deal

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Deal refers to the distribution of cards in a card game. A new deal results in a new deck, thus a new (supposedly) fair distribution of chances, i.e. figuratively (in the original use) new opportunities in life for everyone.

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New Deal

  1. A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.
    • 2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 July 2019:
      The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.

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