What does the great society and the new deal have in common?

Answer 1

New Deal - Great Society The New Deal and its policies show that the Depression of the 1930s led to extraordinary testing of federal educational programs. The New Deal set guide that redefined the federal government's position in education. The government used organizations such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration to construct schools, help employ teachers, and offer a broad range of courses. In dissimilarity to the Great Society, education was insignificant to New Deal Social policy. Federal relief and creating jobs was of the highest concern in the New Deal. Education became the main concern of federal policy in the Great Societies war on poverty. The New Deal displayed the need and the usefulness of federal intervention for the education of blacks and other educationally underprivileged groups. In the Great Society, education policy is how the federal government appeared to justify black claims for equal education while at the same time, avoiding the educational policies blacks actually wanted. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs with two main goals. The Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs addressed education, transportation, medical needs, and urban development. Certain government instituted programs aided in the training of blacks. New Deal did fall short in institutionalizing its new policies. The Great Society characterized a continuation of the policies first put in place during the New Deal. The New Deal's experiments in educational policy did help institute innovative ideas about federal accountability for education and the need to set up new goals for equal and democratic education. The Great Society's efforts to wipe out poverty and end racial discrimination came from pushing education to the front of the political agenda which was shaped by the past. The Great Society compared to the New Deal domestic agenda but differed heavily in types of programs and in the greater success the Great Society had over the New Deal. ---- FDR's New Deal attempted to fix the screw up the government started in the first place, by taking perfectly good factory workers and telling their employers that they couldn't hire them, and taking them to Montana to build fire towers instead. He forced farmers to burn crops and kill livestock, in the wacked out notion that this would raise farm prices and get the 'American Family Farm' back on it's feet. Six million pigs were sacrificed on the altar of the family farm, but no poor people got any bacon out of it. LBJ's Great Society took money from people who worked and saved, and gave it to people who didn't have jobs and didn't want to work. Interestingly enough, the poverty rate had been DECLINING (e.g., going down) for about twenty years - then in the 60's Democrats and to a certain extent, Republicans, realized they could BUY votes with federal tax dollars. So they started every thing from subsidies to farmers to keep prices up (e.g. Milk, Butter, Cheese, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Honey, Beef, Pork, Chicken, etc..) to AFDC and Food Stamps to help poor people pay for this food that got so expensive all of a sudden... Yeah, I know. Sounds stupid, doesn't it. Pay farmers to burn crops and kill livestock, so farmily farms don't go bankrupt. Pay poor people with food stamps to buy the food. Guess who's pocket they picked to spread all this money around. If you work, but not on a farm, YOU. Great society, eh?

Answer 2

Both the New Deal and the Great Society favored legislation that would enact the creation of a government that assumed responsibility for social welfare on a massive scale that had not been seen before. Government became a daily part of the citizen's life.