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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Response To The Great Depression

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In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt vowed to resolve the problems of the Great Depression, and he pushed congress to initiate several programs to assist the struggling population. Because the nation’s economy was deteriorating, many workers were unemployed or working on relief projects. In 1934 to 1935, more than two and a half million of the people in the Southwest were supported by federal relief funds, and about a third of the Southwest population was in severe poverty and unemployment. In response to this, well-known federal agencies began to make improvements to help the refugees. In 1935, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) was created to offer jobs on public work projects for the unemployed. Also, in the same year, the Social Security
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