1. Changing Roles - Post Depression
... into new areas of social and economic affairs as well as the creation of more social assistance agencies at the national level. Both Herbert Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt envisioned different roles the government should play. Hoover argued for laissez faire system in which the government did not intervene or give direct aid to those in need while Roosevelt argued for a new ... to the working people not being able to afford the things they produced. In a sense, corporate greed was so powerful that they were essentially absorbing the capital available for consumption by the general publ...
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