New Deal Case Studies How the New Deal Helped…

 Each “think tank” group will discuss each scenario from the worksheet.  Identify the problems facing each person.  Begin listing possible solutions that you can give them to help them overcome their problems.  State specific agencies and benefits that could lend assistance.  Use common sense when giving advice for problems that the New Deal might not be able to help with.  Prepare to share your solutions with the class.

 Each group will submit a final copy of all suggestions made by your group for each scenario.  Remember that you must work to make sure that the person seeking your help leaves your office in a better frame of mind then they came in with…  You are working for them but also for FDR.  Happy people are happy voters who you want to vote DEMOCRAT!!!!

 Unemployed steelworker from Pittsburgh Pa.  32 yrs. Old  Married with four kids  Recently purchased a row home in the city  How can the New Deal help Joe “the steel worker”?

 FERA – “dole” payments  Social Security – unemployment  HOLC – loan for the house.  WPA or PWA job  Keep checking with union about “call backs”

 College graduate  Portrait painting degree  23 yrs old  Male or female?  Single  College loans owed  How can the New Deal help her/him?

 Get a job with the WPA arts program.  Advise person to move back in with parents to help with cost of living for you and your parents.

 WWI wounded vet.  Laid off from work due to your disability.  Clerk in an office.  Married with no kids.  Live in New York City.  How can the New Deal help this man?

 FERA – “dole” payments  Social Security – aid to disabled  Suggest visiting the NY Veterans Hospital for help when needed.  Contact FDR to let him know how you were treated at your last job…..  Obtain a job in any of the New Deal agencies offices since you are a clerk.  Suggest moving out of the city to NJ or a boro  Suggest that wife seek employment too.

 You are a junior in HS.  4 th of 7 children  You are 16.  You live in a major NE city.  Father is unemployed  Father is seriously ill.  How can the New Deal help this family?

 FERA – Dole payments  Social Security – Unemployment  Older brothers get jobs in CCC  You get a job in the NYA  Advise the boy that when your father passes away come back to the office.  File for Social Security – Aide to Dependent Children once the father passes away.

 You are a mother of 4.  Your husband abandoned you and your kids.  You live in a small rural town.  You did not graduate from HS.  How can the New Deal help this woman?

 Suggest the woman move back with her parents for help with the kids.  Go back to get your diploma or technical training. (job skills needed)  Seek advise of your local doctor about “declaring” your deadbeat husband dead…  Begin collecting Social Security – Aide to dependent children.  Move to a larger city.

 The New Deal provided help for millions of people to deal with the problems facing them during the Great Depression.  Not all problems, however, could be solved by the New Deal.  Unfortunately, a world war would end most of the misery caused by the great depression.  How is the New Deal still working today to help American’s?

 FDIC  SEC  Social Security  Unemployment benefits  Minimum wage, pensions for union workers  FHA  HOLC  …