The New Deal: A Weak Campaign That Benifited Many

“I remember she would say to me sometimes,’You go out and do it. I’m ashamed.’” -Clara Hancox Clara would have to beg for food scraps during the depression.
The New Deal didn’t end the depression but it helped. The New Deal helped by finding jobs for young and disabled people, helping the environment and the problem of farmers. Finding jobs for young and disabled people was one of the reasons why National Youth Administration (NYA) was founded. “

This is a good program. It got necessary work done. It gave teenagers a chance to work for pay...It gave my mother relief from my necessary demands for money.” (Helen Farmer, Doc 11.) Helen’s family had trouble with money because in the depression, most of the money wasn’t being properly used due to the banks crashing. It didn’t help that the jobs were not giving much money as well. The NYA also helped students in need like Helen Farmer herself. Also, for young men who needed a job the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped them find jobs or made young men do projects. Some programs like the Public Works Administration (PWA) with helping the environment.

People who were helping with the program were like today’s construction workers, they constructed roads, public buildings, and many other things. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) also, “constructed dams and power plants to improve the social and economic welfare in the region.” (Doc. 10) These programs helped the environment due to how the depression lead to most people losing their jobs and leaving their money out in the open.

Farmers also had many problems during this time due to farm crops dying. “Those families who had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, had to eaten and starved on the produce of forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in.” (The Grapes of Wrath, Doc 2) Families of farmers had no more crops and lost their land and had to move somewhere else. The crops dying wasn’t plague though it was the Dust Bowl. The debris got to the crops and messed with the minerals in the soil and caused the crops to died. Soon the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) helped farmers by paying farmers to reduce crops and funded by the tax of food. Programs helped people like Helen Hancox. The NYA helped young people and needy students. The PWA helped the environment.

The AAA helped farmers with crop shortage. But did the New Deal stop the depression? No, but it certainly helped.