The New Deal was a series of federal programs and projects that were set in place by the US government in reaction to the Great Depression. When Roosevelt was elected into office in 1932, he told the nation "I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people." He is referring to a new economy and his attempt to fix the economy whilst the nation is in the midst of the Great Depression. Days after Roosevelt took office he developed emergency belief programs, work relief programs and agricultural programs. These initial programs that he established were to find immediate solutions to a much bigger problem that would work to help regain economical power while he looked for a longterm solution. Roosevelt later established the second part of his new deal which was more of a longterm solution to help America out of the Great Depression. The Second New Deal consisted of many union protection programs.
In addition to your provided information about the New Deal, there were also many other programs made by other government authority officials, such as the Share Our Wealth program led by Huey Long and etc. Currently, some of these New Deal programs or the things that it made, such as the parks, bridges, schools, etc, still exist and are ongoing. An example of one of the programs is the Social Security Act, where the government collects the taxes from people of the working class and uses that money to help the people who are unemployed or 60 years old or over and prevent them from falling into poverty with their unemployed state.
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