Unemployment During the Great Depression
The Great Depression of 1929-1930 was a massive economic downturn, worldwide. The implications of the largest economic depression in the 20th century, included unemployment to an unprecedented scale...
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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers during the depression in California, centering on Florence Owens' Thompson, a mother of seven children at age 32, March 1936.
FDR saw the Dust Bowl. He had his environmental issues as well.
But, he was the People's President. He wanted the USA 'back.' And of course the much maligned "New Deal." Will Social Security ever be safe under Republican influence? Why would the citizens of the USA ever trust a Republican with that again? Makes no sense.
At any rate, besides all the great legislation of FDR which was backed by a supportive Congress, he passed the National Labor Relations Act.
