Public Policy Since the New Deal

This blog serves CMC Government 191, Public Policy Since the New Deal, Fall 2025. During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Boom!

Questions on the assignment?

Readings:

For next time: Johnson, ch. 7
For Wednesday: Marmor reading (on Canvas)

Civil Rights, continued

Clinton on Little Rock
Emmett Till (Johnson 183) -- The Emmett Till Antilynching Act" becomes law --in 2022

Baby Boom

The total fertility rate (TFR), the expected number of births that a woman would have over her lifetime,

Roads

Before the 1950s
Why did Eisenhower support the Interstate Highway System?

From 25.6m passenger cars in 1945 to 54.2m in 1956 to 61.7m in 1960.

Suburbanization -- both cause and effect of interstates

Effects of the Interstate Highway System?

Economic
Regional
Social
Environmental
Literal Path Dependency

NDEA -- current contoversy!
NASA

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