How successful was the New deal?

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How successful was the New deal?

The New Deal was made to improve the conditions of millions of poor and homeless people and improve America from its depression, but did it really work? Did the New Deal help all of the homeless people, did it secure jobs to millions and did it give everyone fair opportunities? The New Deal was designed to fulfil 3 things – Relief, Recovery, Reform. We can ask did it do this and how well did it do it?

        There were many good parts of the New Deal. The alphabet agencies that were set up by Roosevelt had a tremendous impact. His immediate Emergency Banking Act worked very well by closing banks and only reopening them if they were soluble. This greatly restored the confidence in banks and stopped people withdrawing all their money. The FERA (Federal Emergency Relied Act) also worked well as it gave out $500 million to the unemployed and poor to help them get better and improve.

        Many other alphabet agencies e.g. the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) and FCA (Farm Credit Administration) worked for the farmers who were being paid very low amounts due to low prices. As there was large amounts of food being overproduced these agencies bought up extra amounts of food to keep prices high. It also gave money to farmers who produced less so prices stayed high. This was a fairly good success as it did raise prices, but they still were quite low and many farmers still lived in poverty.

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        One of Roosevelt’s biggest schemes was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), CWA (Civilian Works Administration) and PWA (Public Works Administration.) These were all aimed at getting poor unemployed people working again and earning money. This worked at young men were taken into these agencies where they were paid to do jobs such as dig irrigation ditches, and plant trees to reduce soil erosion. The CWA and CCC did the same jobs, sweep parks, clean up places, but the CCC was mainly in the country. The PWA worked manly around the country where it employed skilled workers. It $7 million getting ...

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