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  New Deal - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The New Deal drew heavily on the experiences of its leaders; it reflected the ideas of, and was influenced by the programs that Roosevelt and most of his original associates had absorbed in their political youths early in the progressive era, while serving in the Wilson administration, and while holding other offices in the 1920s.
The New Dealers borrowed their opposition to monopoly and their move toward government regulation of the economy from ideas of the progressive era, and were influenced by the dispelling of age-old notions that poverty was a personal moral failure rather than a product of impersonal social and economic forces.
However, the New Deal did lay the ground work for the "broker state" to be expanded a generation later, mostly through the work of the next wave of liberal reform—the civil rights movement and the Great Society—to embrace groups marginalized in the New Deal coalition, especially racial and ethnic minorities.
open-encyclopedia.com /New_Deal   (5218 words)

  
 Read about New Deal at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research New Deal and learn about New Deal here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Democratic nomination for president on July 2, 1932, Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people," a phrase that has endured as a label for his administration and its many domestic achievements.
What many considered incoherence of the New Deal's ideology might more accurately be characterized as the interaction of several competing ideologies, each based on programs and ideas whose precedents lay in U.S. political tradition.
The New Deal drew heavily on the experiences of its leaders; it reflected the ideas of, and was influenced by, the programs that Roosevelt and most of his original associates had absorbed in their political youths early in the progressive era, while serving in the Wilson administration, and while holding other offices in the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/New_Deal   (4953 words)

  
 SOCIAL SECURITY — UK — NEW DEAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Paper argues that joblessness in the UK is concentrated north-west of a line from the Bristol Channel to the Wash. It is also a feature of the former industrial cities and coalfields.
However, there is evidence that the New Deals are better at serving people who need a bit of help than those who need a lot due to their relatively low emphasis on training.
Criticises the New Deal for the Young Unemployed on the grounds that it is creating far too many short-term posts and costing far more than the £4000 per job claimed by the government.
www.bl.uk /collections/social/welfare/issue15/soc-sec.html   (677 words)

  
 The New Deal and employment initiatives
The new scheme is likely to involve claimants undergoing tests to judge their level of skills and any problems that might prevent them getting a job.
The Government's latest plans for New Deal mean that claimants will be forced to take a subsidised job, training, voluntary work or a place on an environmental taskforce, or lose their entitlement to jobseeker's allowance.
A group of basic education students participating in New Deal in West Fife is basking in the success of winning a cash prize and the Local Group Award as part of the Adult Learners' Awards in Scotland.
www.literacytrust.org.uk /Database/newdeal.html   (3303 words)

  
 New Deal article - New Deal Deal (UK) President Franklin D. Roosevelt's United States Great - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
And African Americans did benefit in significant though limited ways from New Deal relief programs, due, in large measure, to the efforts of Harold Ickes, who sought to ensure that such programs did not exclude fls.
Johnson greatly admired the president and ran on a New Deal platform, championing public works, reclamation, and public power programs.
Three decades later, the New Deal would help inspire the War on Poverty, launched by Johnson's own administration.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/New_Deal   (5278 words)

  
 NEW DEAL FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND NEW DEAL FOR LONE PARENTS IN SCOTLAND: 'STATISTICS TO END MARCH 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Of the 10,200 participants in New Deal 18-24 at the end of March in Scotland, the majority 6,050 (59%) were on the New Deal Gateway, 2,210 (22%) were on options and 1,510 (15%) were on follow through.
Of the 5,800 participants on the enhanced New Deal 25+ at the end of March 2004 in Scotland, the majority, 60%, were on Gateway and 6% were in subsidised employment.
The New Deal for the Long-term Unemployed was launched throughout the country on 29 June 1998.
www.scotland.gov.uk /stats/bulletins/00345-00.asp   (1395 words)

  
 UK - New Deal - is reality darkening the vision?
The government's New Deal (see also CEDEFOP Info no. 1/98) programme is going through some heavy water as drop out rates of 40% are reported.
A new report* by the independent Centre for Local Economic Strategies voices similar concerns indicating that the failure of the public sector to play its full part in the New Deal will seriously impact on the success of the programme when the economy downturns in 1999.
The government is also raising the age limit for the New Deal extending it to older workers between 25 and 65.
www2.trainingvillage.gr /download/Cinfo/Cinfo199/C19J1EN.html   (708 words)

  
 edie news centre - Norway could provide 20 per cent of UK gas supply in new deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The offshore industry has been pressing the UK and Norwegian Governments to set in place the right framework for a range of cross-boundary developments as they believe this would be a key facilitator for increased value creation in the North Sea.
The new framework treaty is one of the UK Government's commitments in its Energy White Paper published in February 2003.
The new treaty will cover all new cross-boundary projects, joint exploitation of reservoirs straddling the border, joint use of infrastructure and future construction and operation of pipelines carrying oil and gas from Norway to the UK.
www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=9758&channel=6   (475 words)

  
 UK - New Deal - progress to date   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
About 48,000 New Deal participants are at the crucial "gateway" stage of pre-work counselling and training.
The New Deal will also include special provisions for aspiring musicians either through the full time education and training option or monitored "open learning".
In keeping with its manifesto commitments to tackle long term unemployment, the government has begun a consultation process to extend the New Deal to those over 25 who have been unemployed for between 12 and 24 months, having introduced it for those unemployed for more than two years in June 1998.
www2.trainingvillage.gr /download/Cinfo/Cinfo398/C38G5EN.html   (360 words)

  
 The New Deal
New York State Emergency Relief Commission and appointed the respected Harry Hopkins to run the agency.
Roosevelt was seen as great success as governor of New York and he was the obvious choice as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1932.
However, the New Deal was extremely popular with the electorate and Roosevelt easily defeated the Republican Party candidate, Alfred M. Landon, by 27,751,612 votes to 16,681,913.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USARnewdeal.htm   (2716 words)

  
 Tutor2u - Unemployment - The New Deal
Labour’s New Deal programme for young unemployed people was introduced across the UK in April 1998.
Data on New Deal participants published in the autumn of 2000 showed that up to the end of July 2000, over 518,000 people had passed through the New Deal scheme, 402,000 have left leaving 116,000 currently on the programme.
New Deal has improved the job prospects of many thousands of long term unemployed - many of whom were at risk of total detachment from the labour market.
www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/unemp/newdeal.htm   (541 words)

  
 New Deal Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Deal…find work with confidence New Deal works on finding the right job for you, covering key skills such as interview techniques and telephone manner, all designed to help make you more employable and find a full time job.
Signing up to the New Deal programme will give you a fresh start in the job market and help to identify the perfect career for you.
New Deal is a government initiative and YMCA Training are funded by Job Centre Plus to help people find suitable employment — this means it is completely free service to you.
www.ymcatraining.org.uk /course.asp?ID=41   (151 words)

  
 egov.ca - New Deal UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Deal is a key part of the Government's str...
New Deal for Musicians is available to people of a...
A New Deal for Transport?: The UK's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda
www.egov.ca /New-Deal-UK/reference/fullview/wikipedia/433248   (399 words)

  
 FAXFN: The New Deal
New Deal efforts to change these patterns must be equally innovative.
New Deal groups based on neighbourhoods would be expensive.
According to new research by Professors James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith, published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal, programmes of this kind make almost no difference to the level of unemployment or the wage rates of those gaining employment.
www.faxfn.org /feedback/03_jobs/new_deal.htm   (1493 words)

  
 New Deal
New Deal is a Government programme that aims to give unemployed people the help and support they need to get into work.
Everyone on New Deal gets a personal adviser who is their point of contact throughout the programme.
When you first go on New Deal, you'll get the same benefits as you got before and, in some cases, you will be eligible for a top up or tax credits.
www.scottish-enterprise.com /sedotcom_home/stp/careersadvice/jobseeking/newdeal.htm?siblingtoggle=0   (352 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Athletics | UK Athletics agrees new kit deal
UK Athletics has agreed a new deal with adidas to supply Great Britain squads of all ages with their kit for the next four years.
UK Athletics chief David Moorcroft said: "The Athens experience can now be extended to more major championships.
This week, UK Athletics also agreed a four-year deal with energy drink company, Red Bull, who will be supplying the product to athletics at major domestic meetings and in high performance centres.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/4287531.stm   (202 words)

  
 The UK Patent Office - About us and Policies - Awards - New Deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Deal is a key part of the Government’s Welfare to Work strategy aimed firstly at young people under the age of 25 who have been unemployed for six months or more and secondly at those over 25 who have been unemployed for more than two years.
The Patent Office first got involved with the New Deal Scheme in the summer of 1998, with the aim of providing those jobseekers who had expressed an interest in working in this type of environment a real chance to develop their own potential, gain skills and experience.
Each of the New Deal candidates undertake a 3 week work trial during which they are given the basic training needed for their job.
www.patent.gov.uk /about/awards/newdeal.htm   (316 words)

  
 How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Deal programs were financed by tripling federal taxes from $1.6 billion in 1933 to $5.3 billion in 1940.
New Deal taxes were major job destroyers during the 1930s, prolonging unemployment that averaged 17%.
If FDR's New Deal was responsible for ending the Depression, it sure wasn't working...and even by the end of the decade, with the war ecomomy reving up, unemployment was still as high as 17.2%.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1048166/posts   (3119 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Further | Concern as Tories plan to scrap New Deal
Conservative plans to scrap the New Deal for young people to pay for higher spending on defence could cause some vocational training colleges to shut, a union has warned.
Although the economy is in good shape at the moment, he said the shortage of vocational training opportunities caused by the end of New Deal for young people would have damaging consequences if the economy deteriorated.
A spokesman said: "The New Deal programme is a costly failure.
education.guardian.co.uk /further/story/0,5500,1317924,00.html   (377 words)

  
 New Deal
New Deal is a key part of the Government's Welfare to Work strategy.
It gives New Deal job seekers aged 18-24, 25 plus and those with disabilities a real chance to develop their potential, gain skills and experience and find work.
New Deal for Disabled People also gives advisers access to facilities from other areas.
www.show.scot.nhs.uk /dgmhsd/edutraemp/newdeal.htm   (402 words)

  
 SOCIAL SECURITY - UK - NEW DEAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The New Deals for the young unemployed and lone parents have been more successful than the one aimed at the adult long-term unemployed.
Author questions the strong shift in emphasis towards a "work first" model and expresses concern that the unique brand of the New Deal will be lost as the programme becomes more of a mainstream activity of the new agency that is bringing together the work of the Employment Service and parts of the Benefits Agency.
Describes a new programme under which long term unemployed people are to be given jobs paid for by the government.
www.bl.uk /collections/social/welfare/issue30/newdeal.html   (601 words)

  
 New Deal - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
The New Deal is generally considered to have consisted of two phases.
A number of New Deal measures were invalidated by the Supreme Court, however; in 1935 the NRA was struck down and the following year the AAA was invalidated.
The New Deal, which had received the endorsement of agrarian, liberal, and labor groups, met with increasing criticism.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=NewDeal   (570 words)

  
 GNN - Government News Network
A deal between the UK and Norway that could secure up to 20 per cent of the UK's future gas demand was signed by Energy Minister Mike O'Brien in Oslo today.
In addition to the Langeled South pipeline project, the new Treaty will cover the development of future oil and gas fields that straddle the maritime boundary between the two States and the use of offshore infrastructure on one continental shelf to explore for and develop an oil and gas reservoir on the neighbouring shelf.
For example, the Langeled South Pipeline is part of this new Agreement and in late Summer both Governments agreed a pragmatic solution for the development of two fields (Playfair and Boa - the latter field part of a bigger Norwegian Alvheim development) which had very minor extensions onto the other State's continental shelf.
www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=154423&NewsAreaID=2   (551 words)

  
 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Reviewing the New Deal for Communities programme
The first New Deal for Communities annual review is published today.
The £2bn New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme is designed to pioneer radical new ways to regenerate deprived areas.
The kind of cynicism and suspicion I had become accustomed to in previous regeneration schemes was fast disappearing in the NDC neighbourhoods.
society.guardian.co.uk /neighbourhoodrenewal/story/0,8150,549709,00.html   (718 words)

  
 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Regeneration | Pay off for suspended new deal boss
The affair is the latest problem to hit the government's flagging new deal programme - a £2bn initiative that was supposed to give local people the chance to devise their own solutions to solve the problems in their neighbourhood.
They [the new deal board] are now dealing with it," she said.
The government is beginning to lose patience with new deal schemes across the country because community tension and indecision has meant only a fraction of the cash awarded to the projects has been spent.
society.guardian.co.uk /regeneration/story/0,7940,807424,00.html   (513 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited
New Tory leader uses first question time to offer support to Tony Blair's education reforms.
UK: A bank worker has appeared in court in Belfast charged in connection with the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery carried out last December.
News blog: The EU can re-engage with the US only when Bush has gone, says Simon Retallack in his latest blog from the UN climate change summit.
www.guardian.co.uk   (570 words)

  
 New Deal UK buys High Jinks - Transworld Business Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Deal United Kingdom (NDUK), one of the UK’s largest skateboard distributors, recently made leaps and bounds in the company’s growth, purchasing London’s High Jinks skate shop for an undisclosed sum.
In a press release, Theo Karpathios, founder and managing director of High Jinks, described New Deal as a perfect partner for High Jinks: “New Deal is the largest player in the UK skateboard market.
In the same release, Founder and CEO of the New Deal Group Ray Muchmore said, “This is a great opportunity to work with one of London’s most influential retailers.” The New Deal Group now consists of New Deal Skates, Warrior Distribution, Fenchurch Clothing, HSC+, High Jinks, and Skate of Mind.
www.twsbiz.com /twbiz/print/0,21538,750298,00.html   (286 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Ocean estate: New deal or old problems?
Three of the five organisations funded by the Ocean New Deal for Communities (NDC) have had their funding suspended because of allegations of fraud or mismanagement.
Under the scheme's £200m housing masterplan 25 of Ocean's worst blocks were to be replaced with new housing.
A new healthy living centre is being opened in March to replace two of the most shoddy GP surgery premises in the country.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3483017.stm   (1031 words)

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