BPA:
- Founded in 1937 by Roosevelt
- Bonneville Power Administration
- Located on the Columbia river
- Made turbines that created electricity
- The turbines are powered by water in the dams and would spin
NIRA:
- National industry of Recovery Act
- Passed by congress on June 16, 1933
- Granted trade and working standards
USAA:
- Homes that 6,000 some people built
PWA:
- Public Works Association
- Passed in 1933
- Made jobs for people
- Worked on construction sites, schools, dams and hospitals
- Harold Ickes started it
CWA:
- Civil Works Administration
- Made jobs for people
- Passed in 1933
- Help women get jobs
- Got shut down after a year because they ran out of money
REA:
- Rural electrification Administration
- Created in 1935 to make electricity
- Famers couldn’t afford it so loans were given out
FDIC:
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Guaranteed deposited up to a quarter of million dollars in each bank
- Still used in over 7,000 institutions
- Established in 1933
NLRB:
- National Labor Relations Board
- Controlled labor union rights
- Jurisdiction has been restricted
- Established as unfair
- 1934
FHA
- Federal housing act
- 1934
- Created regulate the rate of interest
- Made it cheaper for people to buy houses
- You had to make special requirements that were thought to be racist
- Still around today
SCC:
- Security and Exchange Commission
- Controlled trading between bonds and stocks
- Set up laws that businesses had to share certain information for people to work with them
- 1934
- Still around today
FLSA:
- Fair labor standards act
- 1935
- Introduced a 7 day work week
- Guaranteed time in a half for overtime
- Established rules for working minors
- If not introduced we would not have minimum wage
TVA:
- Tennessee valley authority
- 1933
- Started when the government bought land on the Tennessee river so they could build weapons for WWII
- They provided electricity for cheap with the dam
FERA:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Get rid of household unemployment
- Roosevelt helped create it when he was government in New York
- 1933-1935
- Got unskilled workers to do a lot of physical labor
SSA:
- Social Security Act
- 1935
- Congress had a lot of disagreements on it
- Helped the elderly get money
- Had a lot of edits over the years
- Still around
- Fight unemployment
- Safety net for the retired
NRA:
- National Recovery Association
- Gave people jobs
- Made businesses give at least minimum wage
- 1933
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