Committed to the belief that bigger government is always better, Media Matters and Campaign for America’s Future are pushing back data showing that the New Deal never solved unemployment. Cutting through their rhetoric, both leftist organizations make the same narrow objection: that the data we use does not count make work government programs like the Civil Conservation Corps as employed. Now we will always maintain that not counting government work programs as employment is the more accurate measure. It is the way the government counted the numbers back then, it …
