(Klein) President Roosevelt took many of these ideas and invested money in public works to give people jobs, as well as providing subsidies to farms to maintain a consistent and accessible food supply. . Proponents of this approach say it was successful and that many of the programs put in place during the New Deal softened the blow of the 2009 recession decades later. Although these reforms did little to prevent the recession from occurring, they nevertheless allowed citizens to weather the storm for a few years while the economy stabilized. Removing them would only leave open the people who would be hurt the most in another