Truman announced his “Fair Deal Policy” during a speech on January 5th, 1948. His plan was to give all people equal rights, to raise minimum wage, to get federal funding for education, and he wanted all of America to have health insurance. Congress did not believe that those things were a good idea but they did agree to raise the minimum wage and established the “Housing Act” which provided 800,000 houses for the poor. Truman lost sight of his original goals throughout the years, and foreign affairs such as the “Korean War” and the “Cold War” eventually abolished his
