... Policies were made by the government in order to minimize economic disparity in the United States after the Great Depression. Over the course of eighty years this resulted in a dramatic increase in both the number of interest groups wanting to play a role in the American political process and in their ability to influence government decisions. When introduced, interest groups were ... with higher incomes and higher levels of education limiting the average citizens ability to influence decisions made, the small group of elites dominating congressional decisions, and the concerning dominan...

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... PDF). The outcome of this bold move quickly became realized as the PDF easily won a February municipal vote in Pescara with a ten percent increase in popularity from their previous vote in 1946, adding insult to the democratic cause the Christian Democrats finishing a distant second. This event rang the ... celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper, among others pulling for democracy to prevail. Hollywood radio stations also got involved campaigning to raise money for orphans of Italian pilots from the Second World War. These efforts were all coordinated by United States officials wi...

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... escalation of this depression was the Dawes plan, which is a system where three countries depended on each other economy to pay off war debts. In a nutshell the United States lent money to Germany who increased their tax rates to pay back reparations to France who pays back the United States for war loans, making these three countries are all contingent on ... in January 1931, which gathered the unemployment data by industry in 21 selected areas. It showed that the average rate of unemployment in January 1931 was 25.9%, which is a huge increase, compared to April 1930 in which the unemp...

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