1. Roosevelt - The New Deal and Four Freedoms
He noticed that middle-class Americans were the heart of the economy, as consumer spending is approximately seventy-percent of the country's gross domestic product. ... With Franklin Delano Roosevelt as president, average American citizens began to gain hope that the economy would grow and families would start to see better financial times. ... Along with that, the wages were even lower than that of China's wages, as they run from "90 cents to $1.10 per day" (In Foner ["Letter to Secretary" 165]). ... In order to reverse these traumatic effects on the economy and on ca...
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