Why Is The New Deal Successful

In 1929 stock market crashes throwing the United States into the worst depression yet. It is known as the Great Depression. With the economy crashing President Herbert Hoover could only watch helplessly. With President Hoover not being able to help, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the 1932 election during the Great Depression. President Roosevelt walk into the presidency with the United States’ atmosphere not being a very upbeat.(Dallek) People were starving, the gap between the rich and the poor increases, and people do not have the money to buy the necessities. Once Franklin D. Roosevelt became president, he went straight to work finding a way to help counteract the effects of the Great Depression. The New Deal was what he came up to
With the New Deal programs like the Works Administration's school lunch program, children are able to be nourished allowing them to focus on what they are learning. “In the past year and a half 80,000,000 hot well-balanced meals have been served at the rate of 500,000 daily in 10,000 schools throughout the country…”(Woodward) This showed that the New Deal was a success, because it help end starvation for many of the children in school. This program allowed underprivileged children to become healthy citizens in the future that will help our country keep growing, and without the New Deal it may have never giving that opportunity. “... making it possible for many underprivileged children in the present to grow into useful healthy citizens of the future.”(Woodward) Not only will it help them in academics and in the future, it will also allow them to enjoy and just live there life. Kids should be free to explore and have fun, not be worried about whether they are going to be able to eat. Other people say that it only helped kids in school and not anyone else. However the amount of kids they fed every day helped build back the economy and allow the future generations to survive and improve
A lot of people were unemployed during this time and it is important that the unemployment rate was decreasing and not increasing. So it was important that they opened up more job opportunities. “...we are giving opportunity of employment to one-quarter of a million of the unemployed…” Other programs also provided work while helping solve another problem. The WPA lunch program provides work to needy women and food to needy children being of more benefit. With more women and men going into the job force the economy is able to improve. Also once the New Deal was put out the unemployment rate of the labor force started decreasing over time. It went from 20.6 percent in 1933 to 9.1 percent in 1937. Sure these are estimates that were made in 1983, however there was a big improvement from 20.6 percent to 9.1 percent. This proves that the economy was improving, because of the New Deal. Not only did the employment rate go up, the United States chances of getting out of this Great Depression increased. This is great, because everyone’s lives are improving. If we did not have the new deal then how could we help employ one-quarter of million