The Social Security Act brought in the pension and unemployment insurance policies to be funded by both state and federal government, employers and workers. But these policies were not too successful because the payments were very small and there were no policies for sickness insurance. USA's social welfare policies were quite far behind Germanys and Britains. ... By the end of depression it became obvious which presidents policies were more effective, Roosevelt's. ...

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All while the incumbent President, Herbert Hoover and his policies did more harm than good. ... These included unemployment insurance, pensions for the elderly, and limits on work hours, as well as massive public works projects. ... Legislations, such as the Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation also known as FDIC restored confidence in the banking system by guaranteeing the public their investments in the banks, backed by the United States government. ...

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"The Social Security Act of 1935 created America's first national system of old-age pensions, though one that was based on regressive taxation and left out too many at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and it initiated a federal-state program of unemployment insurance."... In order to boost the economy, power was readily and radically centralized, and the government introduced the policies of cost plus, resource allocation, wage & price controls, and prohibition of strikes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hourly wages had dropped down by fifty percent. there were no unemployment insurance. ... This act, gave the government the power to make payments to the farmers to improve their land.So Franklin Roosevelt succeeded in putting in place new agencies and policies to try to assume that such a disaster would never happen. ...

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Perhaps of greatest enduring significance, Congress in 1935 enacted the Social Security Act, which contained three major programs: retirement fund, unemployment insurance, and welfare grants for local distribution (including aid for dependent children)3. ... By 1939 public attention focused increasingly on foreign policy and national defense. ...

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The New Deal got underway during the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration and experienced both successes and failures; but those failures and a mounting opposition to New Deal policies and programs would deter the New Deal from moving forward. ... The Social Security Act of 1935 would come to embody social welfare as it "established a nationwide system of old-age insurance....

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The great depression of the US not only affected people domestically, but internationally as well. It formed modern government in many countries, made drastic legislative changes, and even spurred a major war for many countries. The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "new deal" legislation, which changed the United States. The war had left Europe in shambles. ...

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• Grade Level: High School