New Deal Influence
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Each New Deal program had its own success. Some programs regulated wages and prices, which helped most families buy things they needed, like food and clothing. Others employed people as conservation workers, artists, writers, and laborers. Social Security helped the elderly who could no longer work and whose savings were gone.
Most historians agree that though the New Deal programs helped alleviate some of the problems during the Great Depression, they did not end the economic downturn; World War II was really responsible for the change in the economy.
