securities and exchange commission
-protects investors and maintains fair orderly and well established markets..
-meant to restore invstors confidence..
-analyze federal secruity laws..
-make new rules and fix existing ones..
-look over the inspection of securities firms, brokers, invesment advisors..
-corperation finance..=carry the responsibility to look over important disclosure info and relay it to the investing public..
-trading and markets..
-investment management..
-enforcement..
-risk, strategy, financial innovation..
-still around today..
Rural electrification administration
-brings electricity into rural areas..
-people thought that farmers couldnt manage their own electric companies..
-federal government got involoved and decided it was their job to help..
-the TVA reached out and helped..
-the president wanted to rely on the state government..
-in the 1950s almost all the farmers were suppiled with the REA..
-after 1949 and REA helped with some phone lines and stuff too..
Critics and failings of the New Deal
-Huey long was an early supporter of FDR but turned against him claiming the New deal was obigated to business..
-survived an impeachment attempt..
-vocally supported Roosevelt..
-said what was good for business was good for America..
-he was assasinated a month after he announced he was going to run against Roosevelt in the 1936 election..
-Father Charles Coughlin was an early supporter of Roosevelt..
-very religious..
-turned against Rooevelt..
-claimed that roosevelt was a liar and a double crosser who drove citizens out of their homes..
-he spoke over the radio..
-Francis Townsend thought older people should have more than younger..
-SSA attempted to decrease old age poverty and unemployment issues..
-all 3 joined and tried to get people against roosevelt..
-New deals failings..=unemployment didnt drop as fast as they thought it would..
-state powers became weaker..
Civilian Conservation Corps
-most popular of all new deal programs..
-over 300 possible lines or work..
-most of them had something to do with the forest becoz roosevelt had something for forests..
-most popular but was not permanent and was dis banded in 1942 1 year earlier than planned..
-payed 30 dollars a month..
-not very well off in families..
-most money went back to their families so they didnt have a lot.
Farm security administration
-congress made the FSA help tennant farmers purchase farms by providing loans..
-wanted to make farmers more efficient..
-helped teach women to cook and raise children..
-the FSA thought that the tennant farmers were the cause of rural poverty..
-the FSA thought that to modernize the rural areas tennent farmers must be relocated to better opportunities in the city..
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