Why did a stigma emerge around public assistance during the New Deal years?
A) Only a very few Americans actually needed government assistance during the Great Depression.
B) Black workers were relegated to the least generous assistance programs, with discriminatory eligibility standards administered by states.
C) New Deal work programs helped restore economic prosperity relatively quickly, leaving only the least qualified long-term unemployed behind.
D) By the middle of the 1930s, more and more Americans came to associate New Deal assistance programs with similar government help offered in Nazi Germany.
E) Despite his successes, Roosevelt remained deeply unpopular with Americans, who hated themselves for depending on his programs.
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