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Was the New Deal a success?
Nannie Carson, a WPA worker, gives her testimony of how she educated the mountain people of Hackletown, discussing the impact of the New Deal and the effect it had on the Depression. Unemployment was still high and an anti-New Deal backlash had begun.
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