Title: New Deal | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: 
New Deal
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
HISTORIANS
THE EFFORTS AT RECOVERY
THE WELFARE STATE
WORKERS
INFRASTRUCTURE
ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
THE ANTI-STATIST COALITION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Origin and Design
The New Deal in Action
Resistance and Realignment
The Final Phase
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography
FURTHER READING
further readings
cross-references
New Deal

Content: Many had access to electricity for the first time. Farm owners, like homeowners across the nation, renegotiated their mortgages with federal agencies. Tenants could borrow to buy their own farms. Millions of workers were employed by the government on public works and work relief projects. They voted in federal elections for union representation. Their minimum wage was determined by the government. They were eligible for unemployment compensation and received old-age pensions. Most Americans paid income taxes to the federal government for the first time in the 1930s and 1940s. Businessmen could no longer fight unions with every weapon at their disposal and could no longer simply ignore them. They were told what they had to pay their workers, and, for a short time, how much they could produce.