7 Incredible Feats of Engineering Funded During the New Deal

Convincing evidence of the lasting good government can accomplish when it puts people to work

President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his first visit to a CCC camp, at Camp Fechner, Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, in early summer, 1933. U.S. government, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Improving America’s infrastructure is one of the few initiatives that garnered bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress last year. Among other things, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes…