Was The New Deal Relief, Recovery or Reform

   Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies to get American out of the depression is know as the New Deal. The New Deal was made up of 3 types of programs: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Relief was to immediately help to the people who were suffering during the great depression. Recovery was a way to recover the economy. Reform was a way to change the economy to prevent other situations similar to the great depression. The New deal consisted of all three R's, but the one that was most prominent was reform.

    Relief and recovery were still pretty important, though. The Unemployment Relief Act put many at work doing conservation work. The Emergency Relief Appropriations Act created the Work Progress Administration  also put many at work building things such as bridges and schools. Some of the Recovery acts were the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act. The AAA would tell people to destroy crops and livestock and pay them for it in order to raise the prices of their products. The NIRA established the NRA, which told businesses to establish things such as maximum work hours and minimum wages. The Recovery acts helped to get the economy back on its track.

   Relief and Recovery were very important but, The Reform acts act the ones that still influence us to this day. Many things from relief and recovery programs fit into the reform category; things like minimum wages and banning of child labor. One very important example is The Social Security Act. Established in 1935, The Social Security Acestablisheded old age pensions, aid for industrial accident victims, single mothers and disabled people and created unemployment insurance. The National Labor Relations  Act made it so that people could participate in collective bargaining, making it so that laborers could negotiate better working conditions. The Federal Securities Act regulated the sale of stock. The Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Program wich insured people's money that was in banks in case sorting went wrong again.
   Many of the programs established in the New Deal still exist to this day: Thing like Social Security, Deposit insurance protects our money, collective bargaining helps workers, there are child labor laws and there is a set minimum wage. Thanks to the New Deal our America is a better America.