Kevin_Kennedy
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Levels of unemployment at the end of the 1930s remained at depression levels. Also, New Deal programs were financed in large part by the poor. At Roosevelt's behest, excise taxes were imposed on many popular items of consumption; and these weighed especially heavily on the impoverished. Blacks, in particular, fared very badly under Roosevelt, the supposed great exemplar of enlightened modern liberalism.
The Disaster Called the New Deal - David Gordon - Mises Institute
Goes into some detail about the problems of Roosevelt's New Deal.