What did Truman's fair deal involve and was it successful?

The Fair Deal was pushed by President Harry S. Truman and congressional Democrats to enact policies consistent with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

In the midterm elections of 1946, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1928. This increased opposition to Truman's Democratic Fair Deal reforms. Fair Deal legislation included measures such as aid to education, tax cuts for low-income earners, increased public housing, an immigration bill, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in minimum wage, national health insurance, and expanded Social Security coverage.

Most never passed. Despite vigorous opposition from congressional Republicans, Truman secured partial victories on his legislative agenda, most notably with federal housing legislation, an increase in the minimum wage, and improvements in the social welfare system. Truman's Fair Deal did make progress in civil rights, with the desegregation of both the federal civil service and the armed forces and the creation of the Commission on Civil Rights.