How Did The New Deal Support The Economy

1.The New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was aimed directly at helping Americans suffering from the Great Depression and bringing jobs to the country in order to make the economy work again. The New Deal provided direct relief in the form of programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and created long-term jobs in the form of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) or the Works Progress Administration (WPA). One of the main mechanisms that the New Deal used to offer immediate relief was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The program helps the unemployed nationwide receive monetary support quickly. For instance, FERA “procured direct relief to unemployed people and provided an all-pervasive grant of $50 million to each state to help residents directly” (Corbett, 26.2). These emergency funds, distributed to states, aim to alleviate poverty by helping struggling households pay their bills and stabilize local economies. As well as direct relief, the New Deal spent a great deal of money on jobs through other public works projects. Two of those schemes were the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress
As men went overseas to fight, women kept the war economy going. Corbett writes: “When those men had retired to overseas service, the women had returned to support the war economy” (Corbett, 27.2). The heroine “Rosie the Riveter” was an embodiment of this new female labor movement: millions of women took jobs in factories, shipyards, and ammunition factories. Rosie the Riveter served as both a literal and a metaphorical representation of women’s shifting status in US society by performing physically and enforcing jobs traditionally reserved for men. These women not only constructed ships, planes, and other basic military hardware, but their work in defense-related fields disrupted how women were to be