I found out about this from a government staffing post on !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world. The TVA started as a New Deal regional modernization project in the 50’s, and has a mildly interesting history. Very good.

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    30 days ago

    The TVA is super fucked from an environmental and civil liberties perspective, and has long been a folk-culture boogeyman for that reason.

    Lots of poor working-class people were kicked off land that had been in the family for generations with zero recourse and very little compensation.