What was the lasting legacy of the New Deal?

The New Deal has been a major contributing factor in building structures across America and building bridges, tunnels, roads, hospitals, museums and schools. The New Deal was almost as if it was a new beginning for the United States. There were all of these different structures being built to help American citizens with their everyday life. These buildings, and roads and schools that were built were all made for the benefit of the citizens and their wellbeing. During this time the Great Depression was going on. After the stock market crashed thousands of lives were affected. Steel industries were coming to a close, farmers had difficulty selling their crops and thousands of citizens were out of work. This New Deal project was put into effect to help America get out of the depression they were in. At that time more people were leaving America than coming to America because there was not a lot that was going. During a film about the depression there was a story that stood out to me. There was this young girl who was eleven years old and she was the only one in her family that had money in her piggy bank. Her father was out of work and her family needed money in order to survive. The girl had come home from school one day and went to shake her piggy bank, but found there was nothing in it. Her dad had taken the money from her so that he could ride down to try and get a job. From this story we can see that times were rough. Her father didn’t want to take her money, but she was the only person who had money available. Her dad said that he would pay her back, but never did. During this time of despair lots of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. When they wrote to her children were asking for asked for clothing, money, and other forms of assistance. At the peak of the Depression 25% of the nation’s workers was unemployed. Because so many people were unemployed, about 250,000 young people were homeless because families could not support them any longer. When the children wrote to her, they never got any replies from Eleanor Roosevelt. Instead, she supported them differently; she worked to establish government programs for young people, the NYA. The depression was filled with sorrow, begging, and a look of pain and misery in their eyes and faces. The New Deal did leave a lasting impression because at the time it was a time of sorrow and sadness and this was an uplifting thing that was going on.