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Continue the Civilian Conservation Corps, add education fitting enrollees for private jobs, and take the politicians out of its administration — Alf Landon, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.62	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal youth work and education programs (CCC, NYA)	Continue help for young people to obtain an education and a chance to use it
0.57	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child welfare and schooling	Maintain the Children's Bureau; keep children in school to sixteen; expand vocational education
0.49	1936	Alf Landon	Reorganization of the executive branch	Cooperate with Congress to reorganize agencies, abolish unnecessary ones and eliminate duplication
0.49	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Civil service and patronage	Restore, improve and extend the merit system 'virtually destroyed by New Deal spoilsmen'
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Remove government from private enterprise except public works and natural resources
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of utility rates and holding companies	Eight-point federal utility program: publicity, Federal Power Commission control of holding companies, prudent-investment rate base
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning
0.44	1936	Alf Landon	Politics and patronage in relief administration	Relief will continue, but purged of politics, administered locally on merit, with economies taken from 'the political exploiters'
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public employment offices	A federally coordinated system of state employment offices (the vetoed Wagner bill)
0.43	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Continue just treatment of war veterans and dependents
0.42	1936	Alf Landon	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Government as umpire and mediator; develop conciliation instead of rushing disputes to the President's doorstep
0.42	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Preserve 'ordered freedom' and equality of opportunity; reject a state-controlled or state-directed economy as 'tyranny'
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	Presidential leadership to consolidate local governments and lift the tax burden on land
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Maintain equal opportunity and rights for Negro citizens
0.39	1936	Alf Landon	Teachers' loyalty oaths and academic freedom	No loyalty oath for teachers that is not required of all citizens
0.39	1936	Alf Landon	Conservation of natural resources	Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics'
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Railroad regulation and consolidation	Six-point railroad program — conditional federal support, receivership reform, ICC regulation of trucks and holding companies, consolidation
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Control of credit expansion	Prevent another runaway credit expansion through government information, not government control of credit
0.39	1932	John Nance Garner	Regulation of banks and securities	RFC loans to individuals and corporations generally — 'the Government into personal banking' (the Rainey bill)