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We the People: A magazine for Pennsylvanians was a semi-monthly (later weekly) Depression-era magazine with articles focused on social and economic justice, New Deal programs, and Democratic party policy in the Commonwealth. The subscription magazine was created and published in Harrisburg with an intended audience across Pennsylvania. The publication was short-lived, likely only running for two years in 1936 and 1937. For volume two, the title was changed to We the People: Pennsylvania in Review.In addition to regular features on Pennsylvania history, We the People confronted issues still familiar to us today, corporate oligarchy and profiteering, big money in politics, the demise of a free press, political corruption, poverty and proposed relief programs, farm policy and rural electrification, organized labor, and home ownership.
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theme: Unfinished Revolutionssubjects: Pennsylvania—History; Pennsylvania—Politics and government—20th century; Public policy; Public welfare; Public administration—Corrupt practices; Depressions–1929; Democratic Party–Pennsylvania; Republican Party—Pennsylvania; New Deal, 1933-1939; Social justice; Labor unions; Free press and fair trial; Corporate power; Profiteering; Farms; Poverty; Earle, George Howard, 1890-1974; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
contributing repository: State Library of Pennsylvania
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