The answer is: shifting from an agrarian lifestyle to an urban lifestyle.
The president under whom the federal budget had its first surplus in 30 years, in 1998 and then again in 1999, 2000 (the previous surplus was 1969) was Bill Clinton.
What caused the panic of 1893?
In his most iconic speech, FDR was proposing the new deal, which was a bureaucratic system that provided socioeconomic security and relief for those who were suffering from unemployment caused by the great depression
