The families would then be provided with supplies and basic living accommodations that had high interest rates accompanying them. ... The three families in this novel struggled to survive and their health was only one the few problems they had to worry about. ... Families like the Burroughs always worked hard and there are accounts of them even eliminating the debt after a successful year of farming, but with the good years also came the bad and often these families would often fall back into debt. ... The plan was helpful for the farm owners, but sharecroppers were still upset and many belie...

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act was meant to raise farm income by raising commodity prices. ... Farm income rose for the first time since WWI. ... The Federal Emergency Relief Act allocated $500 million to states to give to needy families. ... The Resettlement Administration moved thousands of poor farm families from bad to good land and gave them equipment. ...

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It also established a federal role in agricultural planning, price setting, and federal farm-aid based on parity pricing and subsidy. The AAA helped raise the average farm income and helped pushed up the prices of commodities. ... Thousands of tenant and sharecropper families were forced of the land and migrated to California and were called "Okies" They lived in poor living conditions very few of the migrants found work except in low paid agricultural laborers. ... Many farm families were given direct emergency relief by the Resettlement Administration. ...

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It was crazy to read how the San Jule family had it all, an extremely wealthy family would become poor within months. ... The numbers don't lie 6,000 banks closed wiping out 9,000,000 saving accounts, 2,600 schools' closed, hunger suffering widely spread and 400,000 farms lost. Hoover set the way for FDR's new deal in some ways like the Federal Farm Board, which temporarily had farmers not sell crops. ... This picture shows these two men in a desired need of a job to support their family. 43,000 marchers, 17,000 of them were WWI veterans gathered in Washington D.C. demanding ...

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The purpose of the New Deal was to provide relief (providing jobs for the unemployed and to protect farms from foreclosure), recovery (to get the economy back into high gear), and reform (to regulate banks, to abolish child labour and to conserve farm lands), and overall to save capitalism and bring back faith in the American economy. ... Besides the free food, clothing and shelter given to these men which would help them live comfortably, this relief effort most importantly helped provide a source of income for these employed men as well as their family back home. 250 000 young Americans ha...

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The New Deal also established Welfare, which gave struggling families some relief. ... For the first time in its history, the American government paid farmers not to farm, in order to cut down on the surplus they yielded, thus raising the prices and their profits. ...

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In many cases, the government provided loans to the banks to relieve the cause of early foreclosure on home, farm, railroad, insurance company, and other business loans. ... While not striving for equitable distribution of total wealth, in his plan Long envisioned that each American family would be guaranteed a basic fortune of no less than one-third of the average American fortune, which at the time, amounted to $15,000. Further, the plan was to provide for an annual income for each family. ...

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Many government programs that exist today have roots in the New Deal: modern welfare programs, farm subsidies, Americorp, minimum wage, the FDIC, Columbia River Reclamation Project and Social Security. ... The Home Owners Loan Corporation lent money to families so they could pay off their mortgages. ...

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A farm boy from the piney woods of North Louisiana, he was colorful, charismatic, and controversial. ... The confiscated funds, in turn, would be distributed to the people, guaranteeing every American family an annual income of no less than $2,000, in Long's words more than enough to buy "a radio, a car, and a home." ...

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