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Great Depression. The three R’s, relief, recovery, and reform, were a way to categorize the agencies that saved people’s lives. The unemployment rate dropped dramatically as the economy flourished, and the greatest success of the New Deal was the security it gave to Americans. The Alphabet Agencies served many purposes, but they were all used to help Americans during the aftermath of the depression. One agency known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), employed millions of people to…

INTRODUCTION In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty” (Bureau 2014). The declaration sparked interest in learning more about those in poverty and what was considered poverty in the United States. Mollie Orshansky became a huge contributor in creating the poverty threshold. In 1963-1964, Orshansky used information from the time she worked at the U.S Department of Agriculture. Orshnasky used the “economy food plan”, the cheapest of four food plans and found that…

compared to the treatment minorities received. Nonetheless, women struggled under debate as equal citizens in accord with minority efforts. Fortunately, the New Deal provided progress, but it was only the beginning, helping set the groundwork for future social…

affordable electric power would improve the standard of living and the competition of farmers. In the end electric power alone was not enough to halt the migration of rural people from the country to the city. Nor did it stop the decline in the total number of family…

The Great Depression will be forever marked as one of the darkest periods of American history. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, and seemingly no hope existed for the future of the country. The claims of the causes of the Great Depression vary, but they all root from one fundamental flaw: the weakness in the American Economy. They many flaws of the American Economy made an eventual crash very predictable. The great stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression. Rather, it merely…

monopolies, while the latter demanded a $200 monthly pension for Americans over the age of 60. While Roosevelt could have dismissed these radical notions entirely, he instead chose to implement his opponent’s ideas into new reform measures. The Social Security Act of 1935 provided a small pension to the elderly, and Roosevelt’s frequent acts of trust-busting broke up large corporations, and redistributed power to many smaller companies. Instead of shunning the radical perspectives of his rivals,…

On a graph, we see illustrations of numbers that indicated unemployment of nonfarm workers, also it showed that nearly 40% of the workers were without jobs in 1929. During Roosevelt’s presidency, he created lots of jobs, got unemployment rates to decrease, and also turned the government into…

many crashes in the stock market. However, the stock market that crashed in October 29, 1929 was very severe to the point it engendered the Great Depression. The times became so difficult and hard to the point people started killing themselves. The numbers of people commiting suicide in the Great Depression “ averaged 12.1 per 100,000 people in the decade prior to the Depression”(shmoop.com). In the time of the Great Depression, “unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million (roughly 1/3 of the…

There seems to be number of debates regarding the creation of the welfare state in Britain among academics. The purpose of this essay is to explore if the Labour government from 1945-50 accurately created the welfare state. This essay will first look at the background of Britain after the war and the general election before Labour came into power in 1945. The paper will define what is meant by the welfare state. It will relate it to the Beveridge report, which presided over the inception of the…

depression. He introduced the New Deal as one of his main policy and aimed the goal of relief, recovery, and reform in the society and the economy. The democrats and the supporters of the New Deal says that it played a significant role in reducing a great number of unemployment and improved women’s right. However critics including the republicans state that the New Deal did not helped America to recover economy. As the controversy…