Civilian Conservation Corps
Within the first 100 days that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office in 1932, he approved several measures of his 'New Deal', including the CCC. With this effort, he brought together the young men in the country and the land in an effort to save the both of them. The CCC was also known as Roosevelt's Tree Army, because he recruited men to fight erosion and battle the destruction of natural resources. They planted around 3 billion trees between 1933 and 1942, planting trees was especially crucial in the areas affected by the dust bowl.
Problems emerged quickly. Most of the young and unemployed men were in the East, while most of the work projects were in the west. The War Department, The Agriculture and Interior Departments, and The Department of Labor all helped transport workers from induction sites to work camps.
FSA
The Farm Security Administration, formerly known as the Resettlement Administration, was created in the Department of Agriculture in 1937. It was a New Deal program intended to help poor farmers that suffered during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. It helped improve the lifestyle of farmers, amongst others, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. The program failed after 8 years because the farmers wanted ownership, and they were currently working for the government.
The Conservative coalition then took control of Congress and changed the FSA into a program aimed to help poor farmers buy land, and is still operating today, known as the Farmers Home Administration.
Thank goodness for FDR. Hoover was on the right track with trying to help people, but it just wasn't enough. Franklin D. Roosevelt organized many new programs as part of the New Deal to try and help the U.S. return to its normal state and get out of the Great Depression. Helping poor farmers was quite and excellent idea if I do say so myself, because at the time, all farmers were poor, and if they all went bankrupt, they'd all stop producing goods, providing less food for all of us, sending us yet again into an economical downward spiral. I'm so glad the government finally figured out how to help us, otherwise I'm afraid to think of where we might be today.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1586.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FA015.html
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