As the Federal Emergency Relief Act, a prototype of the New Deal work-relief programs, began to put a few dollars into the pockets of hungry workers, the question arose whether to include artists ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

The public-works program accounted for two-thirds of the New Deal’s budget; it was designed to supply the spending that the market economy couldn’t, and to put that human capital to use.

Three months later, he signed the Glass-Steagall Act which created the FDIC, federally insuring deposits The Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs.