New Deal Recovery

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The New Deal introduced by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, provided relief, reform and recovery to those who were struggling during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Program and the Works Progress Administration provided relief to unemployed workers and their families by supplying jobs and income. The National Recovery Administration helped recovery by setting minimum wage and maximum number hours for weekly work. The Unemployment Relief Act and the Federal Emergency Relief Act relieved and facilitated the impoverished Americans by giving them jobs. As well, the recovery plans such as the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which brought the banks in addition to the American people back to their feet from an economical standpoint. All three reliefs, reform and recovery were very successful in provided a way out of the hard economic times caused by the Great Depression.
The New Deal and its programs were very successful in completing their intended jobs of pulling America out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and Federal Emergency Relief Administration provided effective relief and jobs to impoverished
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The programs and policies implemented were supposed to help everyone in the U.S., including those in poverty, but in the long scheme of things the New Deal policies didn’t last as long as FDR had hoped. Two categories that most of the New Deal’s programs fell under were Relief and Recovery. The relief and recovery programs did help in the short perspective of things, but in the long run the programs didn’t last. The New Deal programs and policies such as the Civil Works Administration and Gold Reserve Act gave the U.S. economy a little boost, but not enough to get it back to