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Unemployment Relief Programs Of The 1930's

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During the 1930's America was going through a severe economic depression and people were fighting unemployment, starvation, and poverty. In hopes to combat this depression, Roosevelt developed a plan called the "New Deal" which helped form an unemployment relief program.  In order to pay for this program, they had to start taxing workers payrolls and decreasing worker's pay to minimum wage. This upset many hard-working Americans who believed that this was an unfair program and felt as though they were being punished. Many working Americans wanted the government to end this program and send the "relief" people back to work so they could make an honest living. Others wanted there pay to be raised and their hours

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