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projects," that would have created many new jobs for the unemployed. Document J shows that all of the peak of unemployment 12,830,000 nonfarm workers were out of work. By 1940, however, that number dropped about 5 million. That is 5 million people who will lay claim that Roosevelt's programs were very effective.
FDR also looked out for people that were still employed as well. While creating more jobs for the unemployed, he also supported programs that pushed for higher wages and shorter hours. Of course big business complained about its effects on their money-making by saying things like "Washington is against stimulation of business," or that "it is plain that these requirements are imposed in order to govern the details of defendants' management of their local business." However business," have no right to transgress the law which gives the workers the right of self-organization," as John Lewis so aptly stated on an NBC radio broadcast. In the end, FDR's push for better working ...

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