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This 4 page paper outlines FDR's programs. Information on Social Security and Unemployment is provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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official programs to assist the economy. Since that time, there has been much discussion about F.D.R.s programs and people have come to think of them as entitlements. While there is
criticism of some of the programs-they are too costly, they are unnecessary-they did seem to fix the economic problems of the day. Few argue the necessity of social security, unemployment,
and other programs and instead accept them as a mainstay of American life. The most significant programs to come from the New Deal are as follows: "minimum wages and maximum
hours, old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, conservation of natural resources, assistance to agriculture and housing, help to the under-privileged, collective bargaining, and the protection of consumer purchasing power" (Polenberg 24).
The policies implemented by President Roosevelt would emerge over a period of time. There were actually two distinct phases of implementation. It is sometimes said that the first New Deal
occurred between 1933 and 1935 and there was an idea that the economy should be restored from the top down ("The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1939"). In 1933, The
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed ("The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1939"). This was a controversial act because it paid farmers even when they did not grow anything;
some of the comments went to the fact that children were hungry so it made no sense to subsidize farmers who were not growing food ("The Great Depression and New
Deal, 1929-1939"). Agricultural programs of this nature continue to exist in controversy. The 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was something that addressed issues in the manufacturing and business sectors
and among other things, discouraged cutthroat competition ("The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1939"). It was a time when both farmers and businessmen would stop trying to complete in a
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