The New Deal had only limited success in ending the Depression.
Unemployment remained high, and economic recovery was not complete until after WWII.
As a whole, the New Deal tended to balance competing economic interests.
Business leaders, farmers, workers, homeowners, and other now looked to government to protect their interest.
New Deal legislation also increased the federal governments power over the economy and allowed it to mediate between competing groups.
In taking this mediating role, the New Deal established what some have called the broker state—in which the government works out conflicts among different interests.