Pros And Cons Of The New Deal

The new deal might not have totally finished the Great Depression but rather it improved the circumstance. The depression didn't end until World War II. However, it influenced individuals to have more expectation, it utilized a large number of individuals and enhanced the economy.Perhaps if their was more of the new deal it would have completely ended the depression but there was more good effects than bad.For numerous years, most financial experts trusted that the New Deal was the wellspring of recuperation from the Great Depression. The regular view depended on a couple of straightforward perceptions, the most focal of which were that the most noticeably awful years of the Great Depression as far as the two noteworthy macroeconomic factors

The Great depression caused many problems for black people and they were greatly affected by it. Problems of the Great Depression affected every American, however, African Americans were the most affected. By 1932 half of Black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, blacks were fired so that a white person could take their job. But yet again, racial violence became more common, especially in the South. Even when President Roosevelt was trying to end the Great Depression there was still a conflict between the blacks and whites in the New Deal Housing and employment projects. This just goes to show that once everything has been set in motion that it can't really become a non-normal thing. Everyone was mostly worrying about themselves and their own people that they didn't bother

The New Deal was good because it provided Americans with hope, jobs, and government assistance during a time when American citizens could not help themselves. The Great Depression caused the US to fall apart economically, and the New Deal was put in place to try to fix the economy. President Roosevelt thought this was the best way to fix the economy, and it was. But that doesn’t mean it was perfect. It also doesn’t mean it worked. While many good things came from the New Deal, many bad things came out as well. But the good outweighed the bad, and the New Deal began the journey out of the Great Depression.

Not all whites were against hindering blacks in getting benefits from the New Deal. There were whites that help African Americans they created groups like the anti-racist movement and the interracial united groups. Even with all these helps African Americans wanted too relied on themselves to fight to change the New Deal. They developed strategies for social change to help create the New Deal. They use the community and other institution like churches to establish there needs. One of the ideas they used was towards labor movement. One of the labor unions called CIO unions help African American expended the labor. There were many battles for blacks had to face in the New Deal to get any jobs. One battle that was won was called the Brotherhood

The Great Depression. The worst financial crisis to ever hit America. Unemployment rates of over 25%. A 50% decrease in national income. Billions of dollars lost in a single day. (Trotter, pg.8) The Depression affected everyone in America. Young and old, rich and poor, black and white, none were spared. However, for America’s 12 million African Americans (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) the Depression didn’t just start in 1929.(Africa to America: From the Middle Passage Through the 1930s) African Americans were a subjugated minority. Racism wasn’t only present in America, it was accepted by many. In the South, Democrats fought to keep African Americans under harsh segregation and oppressive laws. (Trotter, pg. 9) Efforts to relieve

The great depression drastically changed the way Americans viewed the responsibilities of the government. Due to civic activism, the government was forced to create programs that would alleviate the suffering of the poor and unemployed. While in theory, the New Deal was meant to aide americans that were most vulnerable and the most in need it, it often just further pushed them away from aid . While the New Deal was a success for the majority of white americans, it was damaging to black americans. The president at the time, FDR cared very little about the plight of black americans and garnered them no attention at all . Instead of fitting them into the New Deal and actually considering how the laws might affect them, he instead insisted

African Americans were suffering even worse than they were before the Great Depression they were replaced by white men in any good jobs and many ended up on the streets, jobless. The white men got the most attention and the better opportunities. If there were any jobs available the white men had the higher chance of getting them.

The legacies of the New Deal long out live the creators of it. At the time the idea that government would step in and make economic national policies was very much new and a scare to many Americans. The New Deal brought about a change in the role that government plays in the nation’s economy that would never reverse back to the way it was. The government took on a stronger "role as problem solver, economic stimulator, and economic regulator."

While it is true that blacks benefited from the progress from the more influential unions (higher wages) and the newly created welfare state, the new deal programs had gender and racial inequality structured in the systems. The implementation of the “family wage” assumed that a full- time breadwinner of the family supported the dependents, while a non-wage-earning wife stayed a home. This notion largely excluded people of color. Unemployment insurance in 1935 did not cover agricultural and domestic workers. Consequently, “55 percent of African American workers and 87 percent of all wage-earning African American women were excluded from one of the chief benefits of the New Deal” (Hall 1241).

The New Deal programs’ major aim in creating greater equality and democracy was by creating programs to recharge the economy as well as shrink the gap of wealth between economic classes in society. By installing programs such as the WPA and the CCC, these programs helped in creating jobs and decreasing unemployment throughout America. By creating jobs, this helped the economy flow smoother and as well increase the capital per family, decreasing the gaps between economic classes and increasing the “upper-middle/middle class.” When looking at other legislative acts such as the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Social Security Act, these legislative pieces helped create a sense of fairness and equality in the workforce. However, the New Deal also had inclinations to restore the status quo ante the Great Depression by disregarding improvements for racial equality

There were many racial injustice in the proliferation of New Deal agencies. One was called the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and it was one of the first programs in the New Deal to be enacted into law by congress. The first person to enroll was thirty seven days after Roosevelt inauguration. The CCC was part of Roosevelt response to mass unemployment in the 1932. The CCC enrolled over three million young men from years from 1933 to 1942. There jobs were to plant trees, fight fires, and other related tasks. They also help build roads and fixing parks. One quarter of a million of these young men were black. The African American occupied 10 percent of the CCC, a figure equal to the black population. The CCC had laws that outlawed discrimination

The New Deal At the time of FDR’s election into the Oval Office, America was in shambles due to the Great Depression. Higgs (1987), as cited by Shughart (2004), stated that the country was amid “an emergency more serious than war.” Due to this alarming fact, FDR created the New Deal to improve the economy and the way of life for the American people while ending the Great Depression. These agencies, called alphabet agencies, were created to solve problems that affected the whole country. Roosevelt’s New Deal would attempt to bring relief, recovery, and reform to the American people through “alphabet agencies,” but not everyone would benefit from his reforms, including women and African Americans.

Now that we have the ten major texts out, let’s discuss the PROS and CONS

Although slavery ended, racial segregation and mistreatment was a common occurrence for any working black man in this period. One way that Roosevelt tried to help the working farmers was that he sent money to tell the farmers to slow their production that should in turn help raise the income of the helpers on the farm. However, that did not happen. The head farmer kept most of the money to himself and left the white and black working men to receive the same wage that could barely feed their families. One way that Roosevelt could have fixed this was to make sure the working class received the money and to stop relying on trickle-down economics because of the constant corruption that occurred during

In 1929, the Great Depression had put the United State's economy into an economic collapse. There were high accounts of poverty, low profits, unemployment, etc. In response to this, in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress passed laws and programs that were supposed to prevent something like the Great Depression from happening again. To what many people refer to the New Deal as the "3 R's", Relief for the poor and unemployed, Recovery to the economy's state, and Reform to the financial systems were to help the United States get back on its feet. The New Deal contained some benefits for its "top rank" citizens but it left most the same as they were before or even worse. Despite the organized workers gaining full beneficiaries from the new deal initiatives, the new deal benefited the least for women and children and seniors, African