The first sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the small businessman.
The New Deal initially focused on the poor and unemployed but still had some aspects that left out farmers and African Americans. Specifically the AAA which left out tenant farmers and sharecroppers, and the Social Security act that left out domestic workers.
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