President Truman's "Fair Deal" proposed that Congress work on:
- Expanding Social Security
- Increase minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour
- Implementing anti-discrimination policies in employment
- Addressing civil rights issues
- Expanding public housing
- Providing federal aid to education
- Establishing national health insurance
There were more proposals as well, but most of the proposals (including those noted above) did not gain any traction with Congress. Congress did extend Social Security coverage and raise the benefits, and also did raise the minimum wage. But other proposals did not go into effect.
Answer:
When there is a surplus. Obviously the producer/seller has more of the item than the consumer/buyers want or need. Therefore, they (producers) are reducing the price to unload the item. A surplus tends to cause prices to fall.
Explanation:
There's many answers for this question, as long as it's a similar word to disbelief. President Roosevelt's reaction was pretty much thinking, "This is unbelievable." So therefore, you can put disbelief or distrust.
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South
