New Deal Goals

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As promised during his campaign for presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a New Deal, his plan to how he would pick America up from the depression. The National Youth Administration, also known as the NYA, was one of the many programs created under Roosevelt’s New Deal. This program was established to address the “massive problems of unemployment, poverty, and despair characteristic of the great depression,” (Halstead). Reluctantly created in 1935, the NYA was Eleanor Roosevelt’s idea. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt pressured her husband into approving this program. As part of her fight for the program’s start, Eleanor spoke out, saying, “‘I live in real terror when I think we may be losing this generation. We have got to bring these young people into …show more content…

One of the major goals of the NYA was keeping the youth in school. Most of those in school were going through financial issues which would keep them from continuing their schooling (Woolner). In order to prevent this, the NYA created the Student Aid program, one of the lasting effects from the NYA. The Student Aid program provided money to educational institutions to help pay for schooling (Fugate). Another option for those in school was to do work in exchange for a grant. Students could do anything from cleaning to working in a library in order to receive a grant to help pay for their student expenses (Woolner). This provided students with a job training while still getting their education. The second major goal was specifically for those out of school, called the Works Project Program (Fugate). This program “aimed to combine economic relief with on-the-job training in federally funded work projects designed to provide youth with marketable skills for the future,” (“National Youth Administration”). It provided on-site training in a specific trade, while also involving individuals in community