New Deal Goals

The New Deal had three main goals. Those goals were to improve the economy, stop poverty and unemployment and help those who are needy. This was also called the three R’s: recovery, reform and relief. The thing is the new deal had to be reformed so they had to make a second new deal. The first New Deal was later proved to be causing harm to the poor. The new deal increased taxes and instead of it helping the people with unemployment it caused more people to become unemployed due to the higher taxes so nobody could afford to hire people. Here are a few of the programs from the first and second new deal: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), FHA (Federal Housing Administration), SSA (Social Security Act) and WPA (Works Progress …show more content…
This helped create and provide jobs for a lot of Americans during the great depression. It was most responsible for the creation of park trails and building public work places. This was best known for its reforestation though. In 1935, enrollment had peaked at 500,000 men at the 2,600 camps operating in all states. At this time, California had over 150 camps alone. There were still lots of discrimination even though the camps prohibited it. By 1935, there were about 250,000 African Americans enrolled in about 150 all-black camps for the CCC. Another part of the first new deal was the FHA. This was made to attack the housing crisis of the great depression and help regulate housing conditions and mortgages. This was created in 1934 as a part of the National Housing Act and is still used to this day. During the Great Depression, people were out of their jobs and being pulled from their homes because they couldn’t pay their loans. Back when this was first getting started, the FHA was known for redlining. This is when the home insuring agency hooked with the FHA doesn’t insure someone for living in a colored area or somewhere marked off their