and more families were demanding benefits.
             Congress passed many different acts to support those in financial need. While Hoover was in office, he signed a bill that created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) which offered states three hundred million dollars in federal funds. When Roosevelt came into office, he created relief programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Committee on Economic Security (CES). These program provided jobs and sufficient relief for millions of people across America. About 22 percent of the population was receiving aid from New Deal Programs. These New Deal programs were what started a new development of financial relief in America that instead of having the intended positive effect, evolved into a major economic and social problem.
             The programs that were created to help the American society, turned out to bear many unwanted consequences. As time went on, the poverty programs encouraged poverty and brought more and more people into the situation of being provided for by the government. One of the main problems was that there were too many people receiving welf
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