Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana was building a national following with a "Share the Wealth" program.
In the Financial Fitness, Health and Wealth Program, families receive training in "traditional banking" and are taught how to improve their credit scores, Ms. Garvin said.
Huey Long gets credit for erecting the current incarnation of Charity Hospital, as part of his Share the Wealth program, though it wasn't finished until 1939, four years after he was assassinated.
Historically, populist movements in the United States have arisen in response to periods of economic hardship, beginning with the proto-populist Greenback and Granger movements in the 1860s and '70s and continuing with William Jennings Bryan's Populist Party in the 1890s and Louisiana politician Huey Long's Share Our Wealth program during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
This fall we are piloting the full six-course Building Bridges to Wealth Program in West Philadelphia.
Bryan's words gave rise to later economic and political philosophies, including Huey Long's 1930s Share Our Wealth program, with its trigger phrase, "Every Man a King" inspired by Bryan's speech.
He was too busy responding to real pressure from the left and from below -- including Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" program, Upton Sinclair's "End Poverty in California" campaign, and the new CIO labor movement, which was mobilizing workers all over the country.
Thanks to an unemployment rate at a near-record low — between 5 and 6 percent for much of the previous year — and transfer-of-wealth programs that alleviate extreme poverty with cash infusions, the number of maids shrunk from 7.2 million in 2009 to 6.7 million in 2011.
The newly expanded Great South Bay Y.M.C.A. on Main Street has a heated indoor pool, a banked jogging and walking track and a wealth of programs.
For Depression-era filmgoers, presumably besotted with bank-robbing rebels like John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson, the shorts were designed to demonstrate the futility of individualized wealth redistribution programs, particularly in the face of modern crime-fighting methods that involved fingerprints and fiber analysis.
