The New Deal was a group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression.

Conservation Corps (CCC) put young men to work in national forests. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created many different kinds of jobs. Some WPA workers built roads, schools, or airports. Others created art for public buildings or set up community theaters.

The best-known result of the New Deal was Social Security. Social Security is a system that continues to provide income for retired (people who stop working when they get old) or disabled workers. For example, if a person cannot work because he or she is blind, the person will receive money from Social Security.

Other New Deal programs were created to fix some of the problems that caused the Great Depression. During the Great Depression many banks closed, so people lost a lot of money and did not trust banks. As part of the New Deal, the government set up a program called Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). It was introduced to get people to trust banks again. The FDIC is a government program that pays people when a bank loses money or has to close. This program allowed people to trust the banks again and they started to put their money in U.S. banks again.