Impact Of The Civilian Conservation Corps During The Great Depression

While the Great Depression create a great impact to the United States, the president Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at the inflict heavy losses on financial crisis and made the corresponding to the crisis. It is called New Deal. The New Deal is basically focus on relief, recovery, and reform of the economy. The most well-known act will be the Social Security Act that passed on October 1936. The Social Security Act is to create a security system to all citizens by collected fund for retired people. The fund is collected from income of the employee which also known as the income tax and payroll tax is the payroll of the employer. The state government collect the tax to provide a security the retirement fund of all people who work hard when they are young, thereby ensuring their live after retirement. The retired people will receive a small amount of monthly retirement pension.

The Civilian Conservation Corps is a program create for unemployed and unmarried young men aged around seventeen to twenty-five. This program helped them ease the financial difficulties of the families. Civilian Conservation Corps is primarily work on “soil and forest conservation projects” (CAMPBELL, P. 382). The benefit of the program is the U.S. army funded the project and provided them with accommodation which is convenience for people who loosed their home due to the depression. The Civilian Conservation Corps employees received thirty dollars monthly and twenty-five dollars is going back to home to support the daily expenses at home. The reasons made this program successful is due to the several factors. First, there are more unskilled worker than skill work which means the program has high demand to the society, “from 1933 to 1942 some 50,000 Texans enrolled” (CAMPBELL, P. 382). Second, it provides the camps to live on. Third, the program does not