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In Harold Meyerson’s column today in the Washington Post about Democratic “harmony” on economic issues, based on the results of Barack Obama’s recent meeting with 20 economic advisers, this section stood out: That doesn’t mean that differing views weren’t voiced in the meeting or that the party has reached a consensus on trade.

The above poster is from an exhibition of New Deal era Works Progress Administration posters on the web page of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.   Here is a history of the Works Progress Administration.

By DAVID W. DUNLAP | May 11, 2008 | in NYTIMES Seventy years after it was booted out of the World’s Fair and 60 years after it was last seen by the public, a gorgeously sculptural relief map of the New York City watershed has finally reached its intended destination: the New York City Building, now the Queens Museum of Art, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

Jane and I are at a presentation by UC Berkeley geographer Gray Brechen about the incredible legacy of the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration on the public life of the United States -- and the incredible legacy it left us, of so much of the fabric of our lives that we take for granted,

Let’s Put America Back To Work Posted by: Cogito in Policy This is not a new concept. FDR and The New Deal. The late Senator Paul Simon’s 1987 book by the same title as this post (Which I have a signed copy of - I had Senator Simon autograph it for me when he was in Iowa campaigning for the 1988 Democratic Presidential Nomination).