Hoover
Reconstruction finance corporation
- gave loans to banks, states, and local govt's, and business to create a trickle down effect
- gave states loans
- not as successful as hoover had hoped
Young and Energy
The Problem
- kids could not get jobs
- younger kids left the homes because they thought they were a burden to there parents
- Kids had no savings and could not pay for anything
The civilian conservation corp. (CCC)
- gave young men jobs and paid $30 a month
- they got to keep 5 dollars a month rest to family
- Planted 3 billion trees developing 800 state parks to prevent the dust bowl
- built bridges and pipelines
National Youth Administration (NYA)
- provided education, jobs, counseling
- provided aid
- students worked part time in the schools to pay for there schooling
Rural Electrification administration
- nearly 90% of urban houses had electricity
- private companies argued it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads.
Tennessee valley authority (TVA)
- created in 1933
- provided navigation, flood control, electricity, generation, fertilizer manufacturing, ect.
- was a result of senator George W Norris of Nebraska
- very controversial because it only effected small area of the United states
Labor Union
What is a labor union
- Organization of workers formed to protect their rights and interests
- problem was that there was not enough employees to stay included in labor unions and that was bad because there is power in numbers
Fair labor standards act
- made minimum wage 75 cents in 1949
- and was very important it gave people hours they could handle
- under 16 year old cant work during school hours
National industrial recovery act
- Attempt to raise prices after deflation
- Remained in effect for only 2 years
- gave laws to companies bosses saying that they could not put down labor unions
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