How Did The New Deal Affect The Economy

Many know about the Great Depression that happened in the United States during the 1930’s, however, not everyone knows about the New Deal and WPA that helped the US’s economy improve. The New Deal was a series of programs created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the United States’ economy. The WPA or Work Projects Administration was the coordinating agency for the projects and activities for the New Deal. Four programs the WPA took care of were the Federal Art Project, Federal Theatre Project, Federal Music Project, and the Federal Writer’s Project. A project part of the New Deal was the Farm Security Administration where people were hired to take photographs of people around the country suffering because of the Great Depression or Dust Bowl that was going
She joined the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal agency that helped families relocate that was later known as the Farm Security Administration, as a photographer. When Lange was in Nipomo, California to take pictures, she found herself with out-of-work pea pickers. Their crops had been frozen due to rain and therefore had nothing to pick. Amongst these was Florence Owens Thompson, a 32-year old Native American woman from Oklahoma. Thompson was with her children, and Lange felt drawn to her. In her notes, Lange wrote, “She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it,” (Exploring Contexts: Migrant Mother). In the end, Thompson gained nothing from the photos, she knew she helped other families who were in