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The Great Depression and //Poverty//

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal=

The Great Depression was something that hit America with a bang. Many people were left without anything, and they had to find work other places. A major part of the Great Depression was poverty. People were forced into poverty by unemployment. Many fathers and husbands were forced to move away from their family to seek work. Many families were not able to live in their homes because they had no money to make payments, and they had to live in the streets. Most of the families that were forced into poverty ate at soup kitchens that were available. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president, he wanted everyone to get the help they needed to get through the Great Depression.

Roosevelt came up with the New Deal. This involved helping the unemployed, economy recovery, and prevent future depressions. For the unemployed he created the FERA that granted funds the states to reopen shuttered relief agencies, and the CCC that hired city dwellers to work in national parks, forests, wilderness areas, and country side. For the economy and further depressions he created the National Recovery Administration, which aimed to keep prices stable and boost employment power, Public Works Administration, which was to build large public-works projects, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was to build giant dams to provide power. The supreme court really did not support the New Deal. They clammed that it was unconstitutional. In response, Roosevelt appointed six new Supreme Court justices.

The New Deal programs really worked. The NRA was able to get workers to be paid minimum wage, and keep wages and prices from falling to low. The PWA was able to create jobs and that gave people money that had none. The TVA was able to get power to homes using the dams and help some people that were unable to pay their power bills. They did not really end the Great Depression but they helped people through it.

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