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The Election of FDR and the Immediate Response to the Great Depression

ACRE

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaigning, gives speech on back of train in California.

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

But for years after, the quest for a voucher would interfere with her quest for economic stability. The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. She hoped it would only be a temporary setback.

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