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  • NYA 
    • Helped kids in college get through it without having to give up schooling 
    • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • FERA 
    • Enacted in 1933 
    • Basically Welfare 
    • Distributed 20 million dollars in direct aid to the unemployed 
  • PWA 
    • Created as many job as possible 
    • FDR's Priming the pump 
    • Construction jobs created more jobs for the future 
  • CWA 
    • Too much priming the pump 
    • Ended up killing the program 
    • Created jobs 
  • WPA 
    • Giving the people work 
    • Largest New Deal Agency 
    • Helped the arts 
  • EBRA 
    • Helps banks get back on their feet 
    • Fire days after FDR would take office 
    • Bank Holiday 
  • FSA 
    • Helped smaller farmers but more land 
    • Documented the struggles of the farmers 
  • HOLC
    • The typical home loan in 1930 required a 50% down payment and had to be paid off within 5 - 7 years at an interest rate of 6 - 8 percent 
    • Buyers paid the entire interest charge at the charge at the end of the payback period in one large payment
    • Designed to refinance homes to prevent the foreclosure
  •  FHA 
    • Goal to improve housing standards and conditions and to provide adequate home financing system 
    • Turned into HUD 
  • USHA 
    • Was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low- cost home conditions 
    • Homes designed for low income and homeless people 
    • The USHA was absorbed by the National Housing agency
  • SSA
    • Provides retirement, disabled, and survivors' benefits 
    • To qualify for these benefits, most American workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings 
    • Future benefits are based on employees' contributions
    • Each person has one
  • FFDCA
    • Gave food and drug admin. power to regulate these industries
    • Made sure that the drugs were safe and real 
    • Made sure food was safe and clean 
  • IRA 
    • Abolished the Dawes Act and allowed Native American to govern themselves on a tribal basis 
    • Allowed them to manage and keep their own land 
    • Act still around today
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