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"Waste Not, Want Not": Farmers' Reactions To The New Deal In Minnesota, Kacie Phillips
"Waste Not, Want Not": Farmers' Reactions To The New Deal In Minnesota, Kacie Phillips
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By the time of the Stock Market Crash in 1929, farmers in America were already in financial trouble with the drop in demand after World War I. With poverty and malnourishment rampant, the motto of the Great Depression became “waste not, want not.” The government focused on alleviating human suffering in President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Hundred Days” of 1933 and instituted numerous legislative acts for relief, with special attention paid to farmers. As the rest of the nation fell into economic hardship, the government gave unprecedented attention to agriculture and developed relief programs to aid farmers and their families. Some historians …