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31/07/2010

What did work relief programs do during the Great Depression?

Franklin D Roosevelt started many work relief programs to help decrease unemployment during the Great Depression in the 1930′s. These included Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA).

Does anyone know what these programs did for unemployed people or how the programs worked?

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27/07/2010

What were the economic problems during the Great Depression in America that caused such social misery?

Filed under: Great Depression — Tags: amp, economic problem, economic problems, food shortages, Great Depression, hoover, paragraph, republican parties, Roosevelt, social consequences, unemployment, writing an essay — admin @ 11:44 pm

I’m writing an essay. Here is the question:

Compare and contrast the approaches of the democratic and republican parties (Hoover and Roosevelt) to the economic and social problems during the Great Depression of the 30s in America.

My structure for the essay is for each paragraph, this:
ECONOMIC PROBLEM
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES
DEM&REP APPROACHES

So I need about 5 or 6 MAJOR economic problems of the Great Depression, such as unemployment, food shortages, etc. Please help?

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