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New Georgia Encyclopedia: New Deal in Georgia (2244 words) |
 | Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. |
| By the time Roosevelt came to office, Georgia's farmers, in desperate straits from years of depression and low cotton prices, were echoing the demands of the 1890s Populists for government intervention in agricultural affairs. |
| As governor, Rivers worked with the state legislature to enact measures that enabled Georgia to receive federal funds for dependent children, the aged, and the blind, and to participate in federal unemployment and workers' compensation. |
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