how did the new deal effect employment?

Dan Seen: The American public made the Civilian Conservation Corps the most popular of all the New Deal programs.The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18â€"25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. The CCC (known simply as the "CC Camps" to those who were employed by the CCC) was designed to provide jobs for young men in relief families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States while at the same time implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 2.5 million young men participated in the CCC, which provid! ed them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $30 a month ($25 of which had to be sent home to their families).The interesting thing here is that by 1936 the US Government had to separate the Southern boys from the Northern boys as they would sometimes argue and fight along the lines of their Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers from the American Civil War. The program was closed down in 1942 because of the Second World War; however, these boys who worked the CC Camps were the same men that would go on to fight the war in Europe and in the Pacific. I agree in the end analysis with the responder above me; the impact was at best minimal for the nation asa a whole but this part of the New Deal was by far the greatest impact provided for future generations in terms of parks and so forth and the minimal amount of sort of economic stimulus it provided at the time. "Stimulus" was not used then in terms but to put it to context for reference point for today! I place that term here within my answer....Show more

St! ormy Beliard: This is really a complex question, so a simple answer has to be general. New Deal programs appear to have only slightly reduced unemployment in the 1930s, providing more relief to individual workers than systemic recovery of the labor market. One of the worst years of the Great Depression was 1937, several years after many New Deal work programs have been established. It seems that employment did not start to improve substantially until around 1940, when the federal government began an arms build-up in response to the start of WWII....Show more