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    The CWA was created because the NIRA failed to make a large dent in unemployment. It’s purpose was to promote recovery by interrupting the trend of wage cuts, falling prices, and layoffs. The CWA promoted industrial growth as well as increased the number of jobs available for unemployed workers. Another form of work relief was the Works Progress Administration. The WPA’s purpose was to simply provide jobs for the unemployed. These laws all helped to decrease the rate of unemployment, and proves…

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    New Deal Legacy

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    sense of security to the Africans Americans. In addition, the new deal aimed at protecting the citizens from aspects of concern to liberalism and the modern capitalism. At the broader aspect, the mew deal program aimed at lifting the lower class citizens as well as the less fortune societal…

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    The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. During the Great depression, the role of the federal government had changed greatly. Before the depression hit, the federal government did little to nothing to help people financially. President Roosevelt’s New Deal made government responsible for helping people. These ways ranged from guaranteeing that Americans would not lose money if they had deposited their money in banks, to ensuring that they would…

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    I. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a cash assistance program designed to assist the disabled, blind, and elderly who have little income. Prior to the development of SSI, the Social Security Act, which was established in 1935, had a few programs that had provided assistance to the elderly and blind individuals. These programs had mainly been administered by state and local governments, with minor assistance from the federal government. Throughout the years, problems arose as the…

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    Perhaps the most important new law was the Social Security Act. This act (through a payroll tax) provided retirement for the elderly, assistance to the disabled, and unemployment insurance. It is still a major part of the government today. Other New Deal programs that impact our lives today include banking…

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    accomplishments of the Second New Deal was the signing of the Social Security Act. On August 14, 1935 this act was signed, it’s goal was to solve the financial problems for the elderly and disabled. It would be funded by payroll taxes, and money from deficit spending. Many economists say that this program was necessary to get the economy up and running. Although the Supreme Court shut down many of Roosevelt’s ideas by ruling them unconstitutional, Social Security was not one of them. It is…

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    Imagine that all personal information such as social security numbers, past private conversations, and password information was able to be legally taken by the government as long as they claimed they had a good reason for it. Now, imagine that because of the government allowing themselves this power they also make your information unsecure and more easily attainable by hackers. If the United States government gets their way this scenario will be played out. In the past months of 2016, the…

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    These legislative initiatives included the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act and agencies such as the National Recovery Administration. According to Wilson, the New Deal “ushered a new era of liberal public policy making” [2] Looking back on the New Deal, it was actually surprising that healthcare was not part of it’s social reforms. Roosevelt tried to gain the support of the American Medical Association and other key constituencies to push…

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    I hope all of the class knows at least something about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Great Depression and his New Deal. Considering we just learned about it and had a test on it. But hopefully I can go over some details that we did not go over in class and share my take on the New Deal and how it was very successful both at the time and for the future. This is because it made up for Herbert Hoover’s mistakes, provided indirect and direct relief to millions, got America out of the Depression and…

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    World War I, but to their surprise’s number rapidly worsened, and the stock market fell dramatically 12.8% (2010, Allida Black; June Hopkins).By the spring of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt inauguration, the impact was visible across the country. Nearly 25% (2010, Allida Black; June Hopkins) of the labor force were unemployed, the unemployment had risen from an 8 to an 15 million (2010, Allida Black; June Hopkins), conjointly with the gross…

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