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The New Deal: Highs and Lows

" (Link 299) The WPA, under the ambitious leadership of Harry Hopkins would continue with their theme of humanitarianism with additional programs such as the National Youth Administration (NYA) putting high school and college students to work, and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) "for extension of power lines into rural areas not served by private companies." (Link 300) This theme of stepping in where private industry could not was a common belief of Hopkins who felt the WPA's role was to "fulfill society's obligations to its citizens." (Link 300) The WPA would accomplish most of its goals in alleviating significant portions of unemployment, but it would also serve the Roosevelt administration well as "workers and their families on WPA rolls tended to support an administration that had befriended them." (Link 300) This fact would be an influencing factor in the presidential election of 1936 as well as in the Democrats increased control over the governing bodies. .
             With the WPA demonstrating the federal government's ability to become an agent of assistance, an even more far reaching and long lasting act would further change the role of government. The Social Security Act of 1935 would come to embody social welfare as it "established a nationwide system of old-age insurance." (Link 300) Link asserts that "The Social Security Act was indubitably one of the most important of all New Deal measures." (Link 301) Due to the fact it is still in existence it probably makes it the one that has affected the most citizens thus far. Roosevelt was aware that it was "experimental and inadequate" but his administration felt that with the passage of time generationally, it would gain strength. This shift in the way the U.S. government operated was revolutionary as it went against the grain of governing with "traditions of self-help and individual responsibility.


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