The NRA, AAA, PWA, TVA, CCC, to name a few. The administration created one government-financed program after another: : When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, the most urgent task was to get people back to work and money flowing into the economy again, sort of trickle up economics, if you will. So there was a lot of unrest, and so it was a time when we needed some help from other areas. Even vigilante committees were formed to chase people out. : Unemployment affected mostly the farm workers and people in manufacturing industries such as the tuna canneries the restaurant business, and people who were considered expendable were recent immigrants or Mexicans whose families had been born here were, we would say today perhaps, deported, they liked to use the word repatriated to Mexico. Some of the people who had jobs and some of the families who lived in Mission Hills were really not aware that there was a depression going on, but in the Imperial Valley the Mexican workers were very unhappy. The liquidation sales and soup kitchens contributed to the general fear and unrest. In San Diego County, statistics were just as grim: at least 16,000 were unemployed and 4,000 families were on direct relief. By 1933, nearly 25% of the American workforce was unemployed. The Great Depression, which had begun in 1929, gathered strength and deepened. : In the 1930s San Diego, like the rest of the country, was in trouble. New Deal programs were in every state and most cities, including San Diego. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to put people back to work and put food on their tables. The Great Depression of the 1930s was an economic disaster of tremendous proportions. Producer Pat Finn set out to discover if there was anything left in San Diego from one famous New Deal initiative - the Works Progress Administration (WPA). if it weren't for WPA projects.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to put people back to work and put food on their tables. They don't stop to figure that new brick sidewalks wouldn't be there. They'd never have had the new High School they're so. "One reason people here don't like WPA is because they don't understand.
and then when the state finds the burden's more than they can swing, you'll see how long it takes the old birds in Washington to realize it's government help, or else. "When the city hasn't got funds to finance Public Welfare. "They're goin' to give every family an income of at least twenty-eight dollars a week while out of work and a minimum of fifty when goes back to work, no matter what does." Today, the poor are poorer, and the trusts are richer." "As to the New Deal, I believe that it has been a failure as it has protected the trusts more than the American people.
Which of these quotes from other interviews is the best rebuttal to this counterclaim? "You give me twenty-eight dollars a week for the rest of my life, and see much work I'll do." So there they were. Said he never made that much in the shop when he was workin' and he got along fine. Read this excerpt from an interview in which a person makes a counterclaim that New Deal programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were not successful.īob says if anyone paid him twenty-eight dollars a week while he was loafin' he'd never go to work.