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Thank you We sneak in here's your smoke too Sure

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Brought to you by the new deal A moment of

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hope for poker players All right which of the following

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is a new deal Programs and hear the potential answers

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You know these five Alright Well president franklin delano roosevelt

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got a pretty raw deal when he moved into the

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white house The us was in the midst of the

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great depression The unemployment rate was around twenty five percent

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like eight percent today And people were feeling pretty well

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depressed about the future of the country Determined to turn

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those frowns upside down like that the emojis Roosevelt proposed

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a series of programs under the new deal so let's

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See which of the following brought that fresh car smell

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to the oval office Was a main piece of the

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new deal Be the federal reserve will the federal reserve

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which serves as the central bank for the u s

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was created during woodrow wilson's presidency back in nineteen thirteen

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a little too early If we're talking about the new

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deal so we can cash out on being was the

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new deal focused on seat welfare reform Well welfare refers

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to government payments from people with low incomes and while

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new deal dealt out several new welfare programs like aid

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to families with dependent children which supported widows who needed

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help feeding their kids The system wasn't reformed until nineteen

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ninety six under the clinton administration so that clues us

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in on si tio and the clue is no couldn't

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one of the new deals major achievements have been de

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medicare Medicare was a major social achievement since it guaranteed

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government provided health care for the elderly but that prescription

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came down from lbj under his great society program so

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it medic can't be d either How about e the

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affordable care act Yes another major piece of social legislation

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however the affordable care act which gave the health care

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system is shot in the arm by expanding access to

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subsidized insurance for low income americans I was pasturing president

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obama's first term if he doesn't quite fit the medical

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bill that means a central piece of the new deal

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was a social security Social security which provides income to

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elderly americans in return for contributions during their working lives

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remains the most popular program passed under the new deal

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So option a is the correct answer On top of

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transforming the role of government in america fdr also created

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a new liberal coalition and help bolster a struggling u

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s economy Sounds like a pretty great deal to us

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