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In United States history, the Fair Deal was U.S. President Harry S. Truman 's policy of social improvement, outlined in his 1949 State Of The Union Address to Congress on January 5 , 1949 . In his address, Truman proposed an ambitious social and economic program that he called the Fair Deal. He asked Congress to enlarge programs in the areas of economic security, conservation, and housing and to go far beyond Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’s initiatives in Civil Rights , National Health Insurance , federal aid to education, and Agriculture Subsides . By building on Roosevelt's New Deal , Truman believed that the federal government should guarantee economic opportunity and social stability, and he struggled to achieve those ends in the face of fierce political opposition from conservative legislators determined to reduce the role of government. Included among the Fair Deal programs were a full time employment law, an inventive national health insurance plan, extended social security to aid the elderly, aid to education nationally, focused civil rights legislation, public housing, universal military training, an increase in the minimum wage, and a fair employment practices committee.
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