CWA
- Established in 1933 to create jobs for millions of the unemployed
- The CWA created construction jobs, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges
WPA:
- 1935
- Largest and most comprehensive New Deal Agency
- Provided jobs and income
- Helped artists, musicians, authors
- Payed people to write books
- Camp David made for presidents
- Golden Gate Bridge
NYA:
- 1935 and part of the WPA
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- High school and college youth for work study projects at their schools
- Allowed people to stay in school
- Were paid
- Unlike CCC, included women
EBRA:
- Passed 5 days after taking office- March, 1933
- Passed in response to the thousands of banks that closed down
- Would close own the bank, reorganize it and then reopen
FSA:
- Made sure the stock market was a secure place for people to invest their money
- Required investors to receive info regarding securities being offered for public sale
- Prohibited fraud
NIRA and NRA:
- Aimed at factory workers
- Allowed labor unions to work
- Create jobs for workers
- Blue Eagle to say that they are treating their workers with respect
- Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court
SEC:
- Still around today
- Regulates the stock market
- Makes it more secure and safer for people’s money
- Established in 1934
AAA:
- Help farmers
- Established in 1933
- Payed farmers to plant less
- To many crops
- Payed farmers to destroy crops
- Cities were upset
- Farm prices doubled more than doubled 1933-35
Soil Conservation and domestic allotment act:
- Educate farmers so the dust bowl wouldn’t happen again
- To plant trees etc.
- Dropped soil erosion 65%
TVA:
- Created electric power and control floods
- FDR
- Still exists and largest public power company
- Everyone had to pay for it, but only effected 7 states
REA:
- Brought electricity to the country side
- Rural households with electricity rose to 25%
FSA:
- Granted small farmers to buy farms
- Gave them tractors so they could farm
- Cooperative farms took city families and put them on farms, and told them to farm
- Didn’t work well
HOLC:
- Homeowners had to put 50% down payment and had to paid off within 5-7 years
- Monthly payment were very high
- HOLC made monthly payment lower
- Refinance to prevent foreclosure
FHA:
- Insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying
- Were to improve housing standards and conditions and to provide an adequate home financing system
USHA:
- Lent money to communities to build low cost homes
- Designed for low income and homeless people
- 1937
NLRA:
- Helped factory workers
- Made unions stronger
- Investigate and fixes unfair labor practices
FLSA:
- Still exists today
- Established a national minimum wage- 40 cents/ hour
- 40 hour week
- Prohibited most child labor
- Guaranteed over time
SSA:
- Help elderly
IRA:
- Help native Americans
- Allowed them to manage and keep their own land
- Included provisions to help create job opportunities on Indian reservations
- Led to many casinos on Indian Reservations
- Still around today
- Allowing them to live like they use to and teach children history
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