Little New Deal
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| Location | Wisconsin |
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| Organized by | Governor Philip Fox La Follette |
The Little New Deal also referred to as Wisconsin's Little New Deal or Wisconsin's New Deal was a series of rural, economic, social and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States within Wisconsin under the Republican and Progressive Governorship of Philip Fox La Follette.[1][2]
In 1931 Wisconsin became the first state in the United States to enact a "Union Bill of Rights" and Unemployment Laws, in the early years the Wisconsin progressives often informally aligned themselves with the national New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the late 1930s it became difficult to place Philip's policies on weather they were politically to the left or to the right of the national New Deal with Philip being accused of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Demagoguery.[3][1]