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  • Essay / The success and failure of the New Deal - 757

    The New DealThe United States experienced many trials during the Great Depression (1929-1939). Poverty, unemployment and despair have darkened the “American dream” and intensified the urgency to find solutions to remedy and control the damage on a national scale. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed the New Deal to detoxify the nation of its suffering. It can be argued that the New Deal was ineffective due to its inability to end the Great Depression with its short-term solutions and yet created more problems; it succeeded by providing direct aid to the needy, economic recovery and structural reforms for the majority of the general public in the severity of the Great Depression. In terms of relief, the New Deal provided many opportunities for families and individuals. with good intentions but had unconstitutional or unnecessary flaws. For example, the Agricultural Adjustment Act which was declared unconstitutional due to controversy over the destruction of livestock and crops while many citizens were starving. And like the FSA, it only made 6,000 loans, which was considered very few compared to the number of applications. Both of these supported historian Barton J. Bernstein, who recognized the goals of the New Deal, but believed it was never successful. He said it "failed to uplift the poor, it failed to redistribute income [and] it failed to expand equality." But contrary to the AAA and Bernstein's opinion, there were beneficial programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that provided unemployed conservation projects (jobs) to participate in and the Home Owners Loan Corporation which and direct assistance in providing the needy with food, shelter and... paper artels, restricting business competition and limiting employment because they have established codes for ideal business practices . They tried to set labor standards and a minimum wage for the welfare of workers, but this greatly dissatisfied the owners of large companies. In conclusion, the New Deal succeeded in providing much relief, reform, and recovery, even when the economy was not expected to recover until then. the Second World War. The New Deal, as hoped, was able to provide employment to countless numbers of people and established the legislation necessary to prevent future collapses and depressions. Under the terrifying and intense conditions and constraints of the Great Depression, President FDR's New Deal was not perfect, but it had the greatest impact that any other form of restoration could and would not have had. raised public morale as much as the New Deal..