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Terms & NamesTerms & NamesMAIN IDEAMAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOWWHY IT MATTERS NOW

•Eleanor Roosevelt •Works Progress Administration (WPA)

•National Youth Administration

•Wagner Act •Social Security Act

The Second New Deal included new programs to extend federal aid and stimulate the nation’s economy.

Second New Deal programs continue to assist homebuyers, farmers, workers, and the elderly in the 2000s.

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One American's Story

The Second New Deal Takes Hold

Dorothea Lange was a photographer who documented American life during the Great Depression and the era of the New Deal. Lange spent considerable time getting to know her subjects—destitute migrant workers—before she and her assistant set up their cameras.

A PERSONAL VOICE DOROTHEA LANGE “ So often it’s just sticking around and remaining there, not swooping in and swooping out in a cloud of dust. . . . We found our way in . . . not too far away from the people we were working with. . . . The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person. But the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him, is the fellow that you’d better find out why.”

—quoted in Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange

Lange also believed that her distinct limp, the result of a childhood case of polio, worked to her advantage. Seeing that Lange, too, had suffered, people were kind to her and more at ease.

Much of Lange’s work was funded by federal agencies, such as the Farm Security Administration, which was established to alleviate rural poverty. Her photographs of migrant workers helped draw attention to the desperate condi- tions in rural America and helped to underscore the need for direct relief.

The Second Hundred Days By 1935, the Roosevelt administration was seeking ways to build on the programs established during the Hundred Days. Although the economy had improved dur- ing FDR’s first two years in office, the gains were not as great as he had expected. Unemployment remained high despite government work programs, and produc- tion still lagged behind the levels of the 1920s.

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Dorothea Lange taking photo- graphs on the Texas plains in 1934.