5/23/2023 0 Comments The mail pilot 1933 intro![]() New York – the largest American city with almost 7,000,000 people – was the single greatest recipient of New Deal public works in the country. At the same time, New Deal legislation began strengthening the economy and pulling it out of the Great Depression with a host of programs to regulate banking, assist agriculture, and aid workers with the right to organize, earn minimum wages, obtain unemployment compensation, and enroll in Social Security. Out-of-work artists, writers, and designers were employed to enliven public places with murals and sculptures actors, singers, and playwrights to create musical and theater performances and skilled craftsmen to provide technical education. New Deal funds built thousands of recreational facilities for all Americans to enjoy, including swimming pools, playgrounds, ball fields, hiking trails, and urban, state, and national parks. It delivered a wealth of public works: schools, courthouses, roads, hospitals and health clinics, dams, power lines, libraries, post offices, bridges, and highways. The President’s promise of “direct, vigorous action” shaped the New Deal-a constellation of federal programs that put millions of people back to work, raised people’s hopes and spirits, and provided the country with much-needed new infrastructure. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.” At his inauguration he declared: “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. ![]() ![]() When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933, one in four Americans was unemployed and millions were destitute.
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