[johnr2]

> Unless there’s a reason we can’t repeat the famous infrastructure jobs programs from a century ago

That had positive effects in the USA, but in Europe the economic woes of the 1930s led to WWII.

[ben_w]

Did anyone in Europe do a jobs program at that point? My GCSE history only covered the economic impact of forcing Germany to pay reparations for WW1, and treated The New Deal as unconnected.

GCSEs are not great.