Why Was The New Deal Successful

During 1932, the Great Depression is at its peak. About a quarter of Americans were out of jobs and a multitude of people were starving on the streets. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected into the presidential office and proposes the innovative and revolutionary New Deal to solve the problems of the Great Depression. The New Deal proposes many programs to transform the role that the government had in its economy. It was often criticized for wasteful spending of government money, but those criticisms pale in comparison to the achievements that were attained . The New Deal was successful, in the form of limited success, in helping America to get back on its feet through creating businesses, feeding those who were starving, and lowering the overall unemployment rate in America.

The first reason why the New Deal was successful is because it positively affected many different people no matter what race, such as Native Americans through creation of businesses, as reported by the Survey Magazine of Social Interpretation. Even though America, in this time period, was unfair towards many races, the New Deal did its best to pull all Americans out of the Great Depression. One way this happened is by helping out many Native Americans. Through many …show more content…
In 1933, the percent of the labor force that did not have a job was 20.6 percent. In just one year, the unemployment rate decreased by four percent. For the next three years, the rate continued to drop, but went up in 1938 and 1939. After, however, the rate went back down and continued to drop steadily for the next five years. In 1945, the unemployment rate was 1.9 percent. These numbers clearly prove that the programs of the New Deal were efficient and successful in creating jobs and lowering the unemployment rate in America, thus further uplifting America’s