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Francis Townsend
"The New Deal" was a program initiated by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. In the end, this program was part of the changes that allowed the United States to eventually join the effort to liberate Europe in the Second World War.
Examples of the Second New Deal included the WPA, which was the major relief agency of the New Deal. It was to provide work, not welfare. The major new piece of legislation during the Second New Deal was the Social Security Act of 1935. It provided insurance for the aged, unemployed, and disabled and it was based on contributions by both employers and employees.
The second new deal was popular because they wanted to give farmers more money to grow crops and they wanted to fight unemployment.
The Social Security Act, according to Roosevelt.