The Government will Pay me to Work?
The new deal had occurred in 1933 due to the stock market crash. At this time millions of people were out of work. At the time the president (Franklin D Roosevelt) didn’t have any jobs for the american people so Franklin D. Roosevelt made what is called the New deal. This New Deal would make it so people that live in the united states could get hired by the government for labor. Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that they would make it so people had to work for there money. People made sidewalks, made bridges, raked leaves anything that could get them money.
The United states was pretty much at holt and everyone was out of work. It affected every family in the States. Did the new deal affect kansas? Yes it did many people could finally get a job again. They could put food on their table for their children. Kansas had gotten a lot done at that time including Amelia Earhart bridge- Atchison Kansas, Atkinson Municipal Airport -Pittsburgh Kansas, and the Bluemont Youth Cabin-Manhattan Kansas. These are only a few example’s have things people had made just to get paid. The goal of the New deal was to bring money to people that didn’t have any and it brought jobs to people that didn’t have one. People got a job from it by working all day and they got paid which made the New deal so interesting. Nowadays you can just file for welfare and don't have to work but back then that was the only option you had was hard labor.
There were several different associations that would hire people. Some examples were the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), Wpa (Works Project Administration),Pwa (Public Works Administration), and the National Labor Relations Board. Some examples of things some progams made.
Did the new deal work and did it succeed? Yes the New deal was very succesful because it brought money to the ones that didn’t have it. The New deal didn’t just affect kansas it affected the whole United States. Everyone that had worked had gotten money from the government. According to Peter Fearon’s book, Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation, is a thorough examination of the role that the Kansas state government, the federal government, and the relationship between the two governments played in providing relief to those hardest hit by the Depression. Fearnon’s work is rich in information drawn from primary sources. Probably the most important of these sources is the personal papers of John G. Stutz, the head of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee, which was responsible for distributing the bulk of state-administered aid.
