The Federal Theater Project was a project where the government funded plays to stimulate employment for people out of work. This happened during the great depression so it was a time where the U.S. really needed something to help the economy. To get people to come watch these plays they were producing they would do some plays called “Living Newpapers” which analyzed current hot topics. However the “Living Newspapers” started to get problematic when they started to go over foreign issues so congress made it so that the actors couldn’t depict foreign heads of state on stage because they were afraid of diplomatic backlash. Even worse the Federal Theater Project was cancelled in 1939 because the government decided it was costing them too much money, even though it created thousands of jobs for unemployed citizens.
This relates to the argument of what the government is doing currently because they are spending money to bail out the banks and other organizations as to create jobs but they are also taking away jobs from people because they are costing too much money. Because the economy is bad and homeless rates are up people are turning to the government to create jobs for everyone, but even though they are trying to create more jobs it seems even more people are getting laid off from their jobs.
So the real question is should the government take the risk like they did with The Federal Theater Project went into action and spend money to create jobs or should they just keep doing what they’re doing?
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