Why Is The New Deal Successful

America was dealing with many hardships and experiencing a difficult time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected into office. The Great Depression was in full effect and many people had no money, no job and little amounts of food. President Roosevelt had a plan called the New Deal to help fix these problems caused by the Great Depression. The New Deal was a series of government programs that was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s to improve the conditions of people suffering from the Great Depression. Ultimately the New Deal was very successful because it created more jobs for the American people, benefitted labor unions, and established the Social Security Act.
The New Deal was very rewarding because it created many jobs. Before President Roosevelt came to office, the rate of unemployment was very high. People across the United States did not work because there were very few jobs, many were homeless and starving because they had no money. “As unemployment levels in some cities reached staggering levels during the Great Depression. By 1933, Toledo, Ohio's had reached 80 percent, and nearly 90 percent of Lowell, Massachusetts was unemployed” (History.com Staff, par. 3). The New Deal would soon fix this problem, it created the Works Progress …show more content…
Franklin Roosevelt helped fix some of the country's problems by creating the New Deal in 1933. Overall the New Deal was successful because it created jobs, benefitted labor unions and established the Social Security Act. Although the New Deal was very beneficial to American people it did not bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Eventually World War II would bring America out of the Great Depression because of the government’s funding on producing goods for the Allied