Which of the following new deal program was designed to actually reform the economy?
Relief was the immediate effort to help the one-third of the population most affected by the depression. Roosevelt expanded Hoover’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration work relief program and added the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, and (starting in 1935) the Works Progress Administration. In 1935, the social security and unemployment insurance programs were also added. Separate programs were set up for relief in rural America, such as the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration. These work relief programs have been praised by most economists in retrospect.[4]Milton Friedman, who after taking a graduate degree in economics was employed by the WPA to analyze family budgets and the hardships they faced, was an ardent New Dealer as late as 1943, and always regarded the relief programs as “appropriate responses to the critical situation.” Recovery was the effort in many programs to restore normal economic health. By most economic indicat
