How Did The New Deal Affect The Economy

The New Deal was an extraordinary plan that involved the united states rebuilding its self after the Great Depression by stabilizing the economy, creating long term job opportunities, decreasing agricultural supply to drive prices up, and helping homeowners pay mortgages and stay in their homes” created by, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of these plans also known as programs were called Federal Housing Administration, Public Works Administration, Social Security Act, Home Owners Loan Corporation, Civilian Conservation Corps, and many more. Out of a lot of the New Deal programs the one that stood out to me the most was the Works Progress Administration. Which was, the largest New Deal program that changed millions of Great Depression Americans
By providing jobs to those Americans, not only will they be able to provide for their families they will have money to spend at other places, which will cause a domino effect on America. That will get more Americans working and keep the economy flowing which will make the economy stable. “ The Works Progress Administration program provided public jobs like building railroads, constructing public building, building bridges, making public parks, airports, and making all types of different business that lead to 8.5 million people employed” . The WPA also provided jobs to many public affair women workers that were in the community. “In 1938 about 13.5% of women WPA workers were reported which caused the decision to be made that all women workers in the WPA program to be paid the same amount as men.” Even with having the jobs that didn’t pay very much like sewing clothes ,book binding ,caring for the elderly ,school lunch programs, nursery schools, and recreational programs”
This program alone dropped the unemployment rate from 20% at that time till about 2%. This happened because many Americans were working in the arm services, defense industrial and many other public work places.” During, the 8 years the WPA programs lasted there were about 8.5 million Americans that were employed in the United States and employment, reached its peak of more than 3.3million Americans in the work force in the late 1930’s”. In 1943 many government officials at the time stated that “ Never before in the history of the human race has a public works program, whose principal object was the mitigation of need due to unemployment, reached the magnitude of the Work Projects Administration” The results of this was millions of Americans were employed , the money supply expanded in many ways , and the WPA projects were consistent and growing. Some say that the work that the WPA provided as remarkable and very impressive. There were many different infrastructure projects (the equipment and structures required by the military or by a country or region) that was dealt with this program. Such as water mains, sidewalks, sewers and schools. This program also helped with food distributions to Many Americans in the United States. “About 1.5 billion school lunches were served ,124 new or improved bridges, 650,000 new or improved roads, 39,000 schools built or improved or repaired, 85,000 new building built or