Georgia Avery
Blog prompt: Identify and explain four ways that the New Deal still impacts us today. Focus on big ideas and/or individual programs that are still around today. For guidance, try looking at these six categories: banking/finance, workers rights, social, infrastructure, agriculture, and environmental.
This is a four paragraph response. In each paragraph, explain the following about the lasting impact you are discussing: What was the importance then? Why is it important still today? How has it changed over time?
There are many ways the New Deal affects us now. One is through the Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA). It is still used today. It was used to pay farmers to plant less crops and raise less livestock. The government also bought excess food to store for when there wasn't any food. It made food prices go up so that farmers could keep their farms. This is still used by the government today.
A very important one is the Social Security Act. It helped old and poor people, handicapped, and children. It also made national pension happen. This is still very much in effect. It has changed a little, because now it helps put orphaned children in foster homes. Though it has changed over time it hasn't lost it's importance.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped conservation efforts as much as it created jobs. People replanted forests and became firefighters. It is no longer in effect today, but that does not mean that it does not impact us today. Forests exist now because of their efforts. It also provided work and pay for men from ages 18-25.
Soil Conservation Society (SCS) was created as a response to the "black blizzards" and dust storms that destroyed the farmland in the Dust Bowl. They planted trees in belts across the sandy eroded soil. These trees helped hold down the soil and stopped the winds from destroying everything. A version of the soil conservation service still exists, to protect the precious topsoil.
