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The New Deal did '''not''' help lift the nation out of the Great Depression.  The economy improved a little from 1933 to 1940, but the depression never really ended.  FDR became furious with the Supreme Court's invalidation of his New Deal programs (e.g., in ''Schecter Poultry v. U.S.'' (1935), the Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional because it delegated too much power to an administrative agency).  By 1937 FDR was so angry at the Supreme Court that he proposed a "court-packing" scheme to appoint new Justices to the Supreme Court who would be favorable to him.  This shocked even FDR's own Democratic Party, which then opposed FDR's flagrant violation of the checks and balances in the Constitution, and as a result FDR lost much of his credibility.  He weakened himself with this proposal, which never passed, and FDR himself could not persuade Congress to pass much more of his program.

The New Deal did '''not''' help lift the nation out of the Great Depression.  The economy improved a little from 1933 to 1940, but the depression never really ended.  FDR became furious with the Supreme Court's invalidation of his New Deal programs (e.g., in ''Schecter Poultry v. U.S.'' (1935), the Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional because it delegated too much power to an administrative agency).  By 1937 FDR was so angry at the Supreme Court that he proposed a "court-packing" scheme to appoint new Justices to the Supreme Court who would be favorable to him.  This shocked even FDR's own Democratic Party, which then opposed FDR's flagrant violation of the checks and balances in the Constitution, and as a result FDR lost much of his credibility.  He weakened himself with this proposal, which never passed, and FDR himself could not persuade Congress to pass much more of his program.

The final piece of New Deal-style legislation to pass in 1938 was the Fair Labor Standards Act, which abolished child labor and set the national minimum wage at $0.40 per hour (40 cents per hour, which was worth more then than it is today), and established the 40-hour work week.

The final piece of New Deal-style legislation to pass in 1938 was the Fair Labor Standards Act, which abolished child labor and set the national minimum wage at $0.40 per hour (40 cents per hour in 1938, which is the equivalent of $6.63 in 2013).

The only real end to the Great Depression came when we entered into a new war:  World War II.

The only real end to the Great Depression came when we entered into a new war:  World War II.