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The New Deal: Undernourished Children During The Great Depression

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The New Deal is made up of several programs, financial solutions, and policies led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to provide alleviation to millions of Americans during the Great Depression. There were downfalls when it came to not stopping discrimination towards black people; however, it was a success when it came to helping undernourished children by providing hot meals and giving farmers and homeowners mortgage distress. A success in the New Deal was when qualified women workers prepared warm food for underprivileged/undernourished children through the WPA’s school lunch program. WPA, Works Progress Administration, were helping these children, “One million undernourished children benefited from the Works Progress Administration’s school lunch program. In the past year …show more content…

WPA was a fantastic program when it came to helping children in need of food, as did President Roosevelt helping the unemployed, farmers, and homeowners with money solutions. The “fireside chat” speech was lucidly stated by President Roosevelt, which occurred over the radio on May 7, 1933 to provide a grand announcement filled with gratitude for the people in need. This significant speech was about helping unemployed young men, farmers, and homeowners with relief when it came to their financial situations. In the beginning, he spoke about giving jobs in forestry and flood prevention work to one quarter of a million of the unemployed. He declared that farmers and homeowners will receive mortgage distress because of the Great Depression. His final words in his speech were, “All of us, the Members of the Congress and the members of this Administration owe you, the people of this country, a profound debt of gratitude.” Although these were some successes of the New Deal, one of its failures was allowing discrimination against African

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