The New Deal vs The Welfare State
President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the New Deal to the United States in 1933 after the Great Depression. The New Deal was created to bring stability back to the country after so many American people were left without jobs. Similarly, in Great Britain the Welfare State was introduced by the Labour government, which also wanted to assist its citizens for a better quality of life after World War II. History has shown how the New Deal and the Welfare State have developed over the years by the changes both plans have gone through and the impact the plans have made in their societies during their most active years. The New Deal and the Welfare State were both acts that served to help their citizens, but there …show more content…
In the United States, the New Plan gave the government more power in creating new agencies that would help the economy with 16 new measures that were passed by congress and the government additionally hired people to work in the agencies to put forth the new regulations [5]. The American government in first four days went through the banking system to make sure they were all within regulation and the ones that were not were shut down from further business. The Welfare State was handled differently in the sense that Europe went further than creating agencies Moss states, “from 1945 to 1948… the British government to over the Bank of England, public transport (including civil air and railways), and the coal, steel, gas, electricity, and public communications industries” [82]. Europe believed in order to be able to assist its citizens the government needed to be involved in more than just regulations, but control over businesses to make considerable change which is why as many as a fifth of the economy went from private to public sector with all the government …show more content…
The acts gave their citizens support with job assistance and giving the economy a kick-start after years of economic uncertainty. The acts shared a similar goal both acts went about it differently in whom they mainly helped with the New Deal being mainly directed to the working class and the Welfare Act being more inclusive to its citizens. Another difference being the amount of intervention the governments took to aid whether indirectly or
President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the New Deal to the United States in 1933 after the Great Depression. The New Deal was created to bring stability back to the country after so many American people were left without jobs. Similarly, in Great Britain the Welfare State was introduced by the Labour government, which also wanted to assist its citizens for a better quality of life after World War II. History has shown how the New Deal and the Welfare State have developed over the years by the changes both plans have gone through and the impact the plans have made in their societies during their most active years. The New Deal and the Welfare State were both acts that served to help their citizens, but there …show more content…
In the United States, the New Plan gave the government more power in creating new agencies that would help the economy with 16 new measures that were passed by congress and the government additionally hired people to work in the agencies to put forth the new regulations [5]. The American government in first four days went through the banking system to make sure they were all within regulation and the ones that were not were shut down from further business. The Welfare State was handled differently in the sense that Europe went further than creating agencies Moss states, “from 1945 to 1948… the British government to over the Bank of England, public transport (including civil air and railways), and the coal, steel, gas, electricity, and public communications industries” [82]. Europe believed in order to be able to assist its citizens the government needed to be involved in more than just regulations, but control over businesses to make considerable change which is why as many as a fifth of the economy went from private to public sector with all the government …show more content…
The acts gave their citizens support with job assistance and giving the economy a kick-start after years of economic uncertainty. The acts shared a similar goal both acts went about it differently in whom they mainly helped with the New Deal being mainly directed to the working class and the Welfare Act being more inclusive to its citizens. Another difference being the amount of intervention the governments took to aid whether indirectly or