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Annotated Bibliography
"FDR and the Depression." The Great Depression. Museum Explorers. Web. 25 Feb 2013. <http://www.museum.siu.edu/old/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page3.htm>.
This source talks about the New Deals that were set in motion. It covered Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Works Progress Administration. This also talked about the first one hundred days that the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's in office.
This source summaries the New Deal. However, compared to other sources, it doesn’t provide as much analysis and doesn’t offer much of the controversy that is part of studying history of the great depression.
This source is helpful in summarizing the New deals. I learned that this was a work that a college student did. Due to that I think that it’s not a useful source but it is because the student got information from other source and from the people that lived in those times or were born in those times.
Hardman, John. "The Great Depression and the New Deal." edge ethics of development in a global environment. Poverty & Prejudice: Social Security at the Crossroads, 26 Jul 1999. Web. 25 Feb 2013. <http://www.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/soc_sec/hgreat.htm>.
The great depression and the New Deal are covered. They also cover the Unemployment, Agriculture, The Second New Deal and the Social Security. The is all about the New deal and the great depression they talk about the beginning of the great depression and how it “began by the complete collapse of the stock market”. It talks about the president, Franklin Roosevelt plan called the “New Deal”. It also says “the New Deal represented the culmination of a long-range trend toward abandonment of "laissez-faire" capitalism, going back to the regulation of the railroads in the 1880s, and the flood of state and national reform legislation introduced in the Progressive era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.”
This is a useful source in that it provides a short summary of what is commonly held knowledge about the causes of the Great Depression. This source has analysis a lot of other sources that give and sufficient insight to the New Deal and the Great Depression.
This source is helpful because it provides sufficient amount of information. It gives great background into the Great Depression and about the New Deal. With this source I was able to get a better understanding of what really happened during those times. For example: “The New Deal years were characterized by a belief that greater regulation would solve many of the country’s problems. In 1933 Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to provide economic relief to farmers. The AAA had a core to plan to raise crop prices by paying farmers a subsidy to compensate for voluntary cutbacks in production...” I would have had to look through a lot of other sources to find this information.
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"New Deal." History. A&E Television Networks, LLC, n.d. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://www.history.com/topics/new-deal>.
This source gives numerous details on what is the new deal and how it affected the US economically as well as socially. It has the exact arguments as the link before. But it does go more specifically and more in detail about the insides of the new deal. For example, it describes the first one-hundred days into President Roosevelt's office term and describes the steps he took to ease the US economically.
This source is “the next step” from the previous one. It goes more into depth about specifics programs in the the new deal. The source is from the history channel which reports specifically on past events. They have journalists and researchers that research specific topics to present to the public.
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WGBH, . "General Article: The New Deal." american experience. WGBH Educational Foundation, n.d. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-new-deal/>.
The new deal created many incentive programs to create consumer confidence, bank regulation, and jobs for those who lost them. In 1933 President Roosevelt passed the Emergency Banking Bill and the Glass Steagall Act which regulated banks which brought back consumer confidence in them. The President also created jobs in which citizens were hired to create and maintain National Parks and created construction jobs. Administrations were created to regulating work conditions and banning child labor. The Federal government also gave money to the states to help stabilize economic growth.
This source is helpful in regards to specifics of the new deal. It gave specifics on jobs, laws, and administrations which were created, not in very high detail as compared to other sources. This source is unbiased since it’s not presenting an opinion, but facts on the new deal. The source’s goal is to inform the public on the new deal and give information and specifics.
This source gives quick details on the specifics of the new deal and is a good source to start. NPR is also an accredited source that has many research topics and historical journalist that do research on specific topics. It still doesn't change how I see the topic, as a matter of fact it agrees with our research.
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"Blame Bush? The two charts that show how the Great Recession really happened." Aei-ideas. American Enterprise Institute, n.d. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/blame-bush-the-two-charts-that-show-how-the-great-recession-really-happened/>.
This source is fromt the American Enterprise Institute which is a think tank based in Washington DC. They do a lot of monetary policy and public policy research and analysing. One of their analysts did some analyzing of data to find out who is to blame for the Great Recession and came up with the answer. Even though it is opinionated just a little it does bring up some good points and some research and statistics are already there for us to use. It points the finger at the Feds (the Federal Reserve) for the Great Recession, but some good facts are pointed out. For example during the decline of the US stock market the Feds enacted stricter regulation which kept devaluing the markets causing them to fall. It gives some points not a lot of people outside of market analysts or economists think about.
Faiola, Anthony Nakashima, Ellen and Drew, Jill. "What Went Wrong." Business. The Washington Post, 15 Oct 2008. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-10-15/business/36794845_1_derivatives-futures-levitt>.
This six page article also points the finger at the Feds but for different reasons. After the dotcom bubble they failed to put in the regulation needed to stop the great recession. Also the Feds and the Treasury Department were constantly butting heads letting the bush administration to go ahead and deregulate the markets without and opposition. It did however put most of the blame on financial institutions and insurance companies. The financial institutions would cleverly disguise trading like credit default swaps and derivatives and would also lend money to consumers at will. The insurance companies insured these loans and when the banks claimed the insurance money the insurance companies had none to give since there was to high of a demand for it.
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Blinder, Alan. "How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End." . N.p., 27 JULY 2010. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/end-of-great-recession.pdf>.
This source is a web book about how the Great Recession was brought to an end. It has a lot of data of what was cut down and the “Federal Government Response to the Financial Crisis”. It also has data about the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spendout”, “Simulation of No Policy Response”, “Baseline vs. No Policy Response Scenario”, “Simulation of No Financial Policy Response”, “Simulation of No Fiscal Stimulus”, “Baseline Scenario vs. No Fiscal Stimulus Scenario”, etc. This source has analysts every piece of data that they had. They also had the background of what happen that made the great recession start and every set they had to take to try and fix it. This book had 22 page of information and statistics about the great recession.
"The Great Recession and the State and Local Government Workforce." Center for State and Local Government Excellence. Center for State and Local Government Excellence, n.d. Web. 4 Mar 2013. <http://slge.org/publications/the-great-recession-and-the-state-and-local-government-workforce>.
“The Great Recession and the State and Local Government Workforce” explains why the great recession started. It also has the plans of changing the health and retirement plans, the survey respondents, critical positions go unfilled, and why the furloughs don’t always equal savings and fiscal constraints and talent challenges. The reason they put down about the great recession is “Hiring freezes, pay freezes, layoffs, and furloughs top the list of ways that local and state governments are cutting costs, according to a Center for Excellence online survey of government managers.”. The survey was conducted among members of two groups of government professionals: the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR), and the National Association of State Personnel Executives (NASPE).
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