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Unemployment rates were overwhelmingly high and poverty was common in lower class families and locations. In order to solve some problems, FDR started many organizations such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Civil Works Administration (CWA). The poor individuals in America were not being helped by the government and it could be argued that the government had been turning a blind eye to the sufferings (Doc A). The CWA have people jobs and turned out being very effective because it provided jobs but also improved conditions of cities when roads and buildings were improved upon. The CCC worked in much the same way, providing jobs that helped to maintain the

His consideration for the future is reflected in his programs that made up the New Deal. FDR created these programs in order to further relieve stress from low income families and provide employment to others; his vision for the New Deal was long term. Programs such as National Youth Administration (NYA) gave families money so that their children could afford to go to school and get an education without worrying about the cost. An education provides long term benefits to future generations because it creates a more productive and wholesome society. Document 1 describes an American worker who benefited from the New Deal, Helen Farmer, who worked in the NYA as a teenager stating that it helped her own mother out when it came to money. This document reflects how FDR’s NYA provided grants to high school students in exchange for work and that allowed adolescents to continue studying without the employment rate dropping. Another program that guaranteed the well being of America’s future was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which provided nourishment to underprivileged children who couldn’t afford it. The WPA provided employment to the unemployed and new construction to communities around the United States. Daily service of warm food was also prepared by women workers that made it possible for millions of children to have a meal, while providing women with jobs, which

The New Deal was a set of federal programs with the principle of social-welfare liberalism. President Roosevelt was deeply compromised to help the most vulnerable in the ongoing crisis. In second inaugural address he outlines the progress of the New Deal “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bed morals…. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come to the conviction that in the long run economy morality pays.” At some extend President Roosevelt proudly tell the Nation that he was heading to the right direction to progress. Some of the New Deal successful programs that brought relief and dignify living to many Americans were Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) a direct governmental regulation of farm economy to resolve the overproduction problem. In the unemployment relief, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) that provided federal funds for state relief programs. Public Works Administration (PWA) a construction program that lead to Civil Works Administration (CWA) that provide work for more than 4 million Americans repairing, building, and constructing America's infrastructure. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that mobilized young men to do reforestation and conservation work helping their family’s income and the country reservation. In 1935 in housing issues Works Progress Administration (WPA) Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) that help many Americans keep their

To solve this he created many programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Poor men and women were barely supported by the government.(Doc A) The CWA created jobs for americans by working on roads, constructing buildings or other things. This was good for employing people and repairing the country. The CCC also did the same thing by maintaining and restoring the environment. All of these programs were in the New Deal and dropped unemployment from 12,830,000 unemployed to 7,700,000 unemployed, proving the effectiveness of these relief programs. (Doc J) The creation of such programs also changed the role of goverment by demonstrating that the government could have big decisions done by states. The numerous programs FDR implemented were all run by the bureaucracy, thus the "bureaucracy in Washington grew by leaps and bounds" according to William lloyd Garrison, Jr. (Doc

During this time, “…FDR promised ‘a new deal for the American people’” (Polenberg, 8). FDR quickly realized that in order to win over the citizens of the United States and to fix the crisis they were in, he had to address the two main things that he saw every American wanted during this economical depression. Polenberg informs his readers that FDR saw that the two things every American wanted was “…Work; work with all the moral and spiritual values that go with work. And with work, a reasonable measure of security—security for themselves and for their wives and children” (p.8). Knowing that these were the two main aspects (at the time) that FDR had to place the majority of his attention on, he went to work immediately as “He feared that a resolution was likely if he failed, as Hoover had, to solve the nation’s problems” therefore he begun formation of the first New Deal reforms (Polenberg, 8). These reforms were “…designed not so much to promote reform as to proceed recovery,” (Polenberg, 9) therefore indicating that “…the Roosevelt administration intended to move the country in a dramatically new direction” (Polenberg, 9). Some of the programs that the New Deal initiated were: the NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act), the NRA (the National Recovery Administration), the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act), the WPA (Works Progress Administration), the CWA (Civil Works Administration), and the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) just to name a few (Polenberg, 9-13). Each reform act was aimed at recovering a different but specific area of society. For example, the TVA worked to “…provide cheap electrical power… and… help prevent soil erosion and control floods” (Polenberg, 13) while the AAA “…served as the foundation of New Deal farm policy… balancing agricultural production and consumption so as to avoid surpluses and ensure that

For starters, the Works Progress Administration can be considered one of the most beneficial actions of the New Deal, due to the wide variety of jobs and opportunities that it offered. Not only did it offer jobs, but it pushed for different parts of federal arts to be established. Public projects allowed for millions of unskilled men, women, and children to be employed and make a living. Projects created for mainly the men included building roads, schools, museums, community centers, and hospitals. Women, however, were taught to use sewing machines as a form of work, to make clothing, bedding, and supplies for hospitals and adoptions centers. A significant component of the WPA was incorporating fine arts which allowed for creativity from writers, painters, actors, and musicians. Overall, the main goal of the WPA was to start public building programs in order to end the

Instead, they focused on long-term economic recovery. Document B is a political cartoon of Roosevelt surrounded by some of his most prized possessions: his New Deal programs, specifically the WPA, the PWA, and the AAA. He appears to be take immense pride in his accomplishments, while they look onto the president with awe, almost like a father surrounded by his adoring children. In fact, Roosevelt had a reason to be proud. The Works Progress Administration helped the federal government become the largest employer in the country, as it employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports, as well as artists, writers, and musicians. More than eighty years after the New Deal, the federal government is still the largest employer in the United States. Meanwhile, the Public Works Administration aimed at long-range recovery by spending over $4 billion on tens of thousands of projects, including public buildings, highways, and parkways. These projects revitalized the Tennessee Valley and other impoverished areas of the country, However, not all New Deal programs were well-received or widely accepted by the American public and the Supreme Court. For example, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was a program designed to ease the agricultural crisis by raising the prices of crops and

One of Roosevelt’s efforts was the Public Works Administration, that was created in 1933. The federal government issued state and local governments for the purpose of building roads, highways, public buildings, parks, airports, schools, hospitals

The New Deal also attempted to help workers. The workingman was one of the people hardest hit by the Great Depression. At one point during the one in four Americans, 25% were unemployed. FDR saw this as a major problem and attempted to correct it with a massive public works programs. The New Deal set up agencies such as the Federal Emergency Relief Association (FERA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). FERA was given one billions dollars to help end hardship. Under FERA, the Civilian Works Association (CWA) and the Civilian Conservation Core (CCC) helped to ease people’s suffering. The CWA hired 4 million people to help do public works projects. The CCC took city boys into the country to do construction work. Their pay was mailed home to their families to help ease the financial struggles. The TVA was perhaps the most successful New Deal project. It built 20 dams and provided cheap power. It also put many people to work.

Ickes and built dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. The overall goal of money to spend was 3.3 billion dollars in the first year and 6 billion in all. It is said the PWA was less controversial than the WPA because the WPA typically hired employees that were unskilled in the work. The program's goal was to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, and help rebuild the economy. A major accomplishment of the PWA was the building of public housing for homeless in the cities, but an issue was not much of the housing was affordable to the ones who needed it. At the beginning of World War II FDR moved most industrial needs to the war effort, in result the PWA was abolished and all its projects were transferred to the Federal Works Agency in June

Americans, during the 1930s, clearly needed help. Too many were unemployed, struggling, starving, and/or homeless. One of the biggest legacies of the New Deal is that it combated unemployment with jobs in infrastructure. Many agencies and programs were set up to help increase America’s infrastructure and provide many needy people with jobs. One of those organizations was the Works Progress Administration. Incredibly, the WPA employed an average of 2.1 million people annually for a total of almost 8 million people. It had become largest New Deal program and required almost 11 billion dollars to fund it (Friedrich). The WPA was made with one goal in mind: to get people back to work so they can get money in their pockets to survive. The WPA built highways, airfields, public buildings, and did rural rehabilitation such as planting trees. In total, it had built around 110,000 public buildings, 600 airports, 500,000 miles of roads, and 100,000 bridges (“New Deal”). Like the WPA, the Civilian Conservation Corps, had been created to provide jobs, but it was mainly for younger Americans. This program had employed and put 3

The W. P. A., or Works Progress Administration, was started in the year 1935 to provide jobs for unemployed people in their areas of skill. Harry Hopkins headed this reform as well. There were four art projects developed

Ickes later became a U.S. social activist who was involved in the New Deal Democratic administration for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He assisted in the 1932 election in helping to swing liberal Republicans to the opposition and as a result, became an obvious choice for Secretary of Interior. As Secretary of Interior, Ickes was responsible for preserving “natural resources against exploitation by private interests” and also “addressed concerns of American Indians and the National Parks System.” In 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act created the Public Works Administration in response to the Great Depression. Ickes immediately took on the role as leader of the PWA and sought to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, and help revive the economy. Essentially, the PWA acted as the center of the New Deal program by building houses for those who could not afford it. In doing this, Ickes’ “most valuable services to consumers was in establishing “yardsticks” for electric-power rates through federal and municipal power projects.” “The PWA was then abolished in June of 1943, when Roosevelt moved industry closer to WWII production causing its functions to transform into the Federal Works Agency,” and Ickes became responsible for fuel resources in the United States. Three years later, in 1946, he resigned his cabinet position as Secretary of Interior after Truman appointed an oil magnate under secretary of the

Moreover, another method in which Roosevelt used to revitalize the labor market was through the Civil Works Administration also known as the CWA. Similar to the Works Progress Administration, the CWA was introduced in 1933. This relief program also allowed for the construction of bridges, roads, but mostly focused on inner city projects. Nonetheless like the WPA, the CWA only “ employed up to 4 million people per week through March 1934.” This goes to show that there was only a number amount of people to get jobs, this was determined by the “Household budget deficit principle of the CWA.” Furthermore, to put this in simpler terms, the CWA was given certain amount of money in order to have unemployed people working, therefore

By 1933 millions of Americans were out of work. Hundreds of thousand of men, women, and children roamed the country in search of food and shelter. Bead lines were not an uncommon sight. One of the earliest steps to aid the unemployed was the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program designed to bring relief to the young men of America ages 18 to 25. In this program the CCC would enroll these men in camps across the country for around $30 a month. This was a semi-military style job almost two million men took place in the CCC. They took part in conservation projects such as planting trees to maintain national forest, eliminating steam pollution, creating fish, animal sanctuaries, and conserving coal, petroleum, shale, gas, sodium and helium deposits. Jobs also came from the Civil Works Administration with jobs such as teaching to highway repairs. The National Recovery Administration established with the national industrial recovery act practiced generating more jobs so more buying would come. The NRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935 because of over regulation as recovery began to come into play. Also through the NIRA workers were given the right to Bargain with their employers through unions their own choice.