New Deal

Overall, even though the new deal didn’t benefit all types of people, it still proved to be a great response to the great depression. When FDF came out with the new deal, he focused on relief for the poor and unemployed people in the country. He was able to get people to work by setting up programs that would benefit society as a whole. Some of the greatest benefits occurred with programs that were going on in New York. One project was able to construct a series of bridges that connected The Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. Also, money from new deal programs was able to help construct a tunnel that allowed people to travel from Manhattan to New Jersey. While at the time these projects had the main goal of getting people back to work, but now, the entire country can reap the benefits of the new deal programs. The bridges that connect Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx still exist today and are still used. And the Tunnel from New Jersey to Manhattan, which only had 1.8 million vehicles pass through it in its first year of existence, now is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world! Over 45 million vehicles pass through every year. So, clearly, there is a lasting legacy of the new deal that impacts the lives of 45 million people per year. On another note, at the time, it was true that not everyone was able to benefit from new deal programs. For example, African Americans and women were both discriminated against throughout the entire time when new deal programs were in action. African Americans living in the south could not gain anything from programs if the leaders of their communities were racist, and women ended up losing their jobs due to some specificities of the new deal programs. But overall, the programs still were able to do their job. They got millions of unemployed Americans back to work, and even 90 years later, Americans are still able to benefit from the projects that were started with new deal programs.