unemployed..
Federal Emergency Relief Act
-provide relief for people.
-one of the First Relief Programs..
-gave states $3 billion for relief programs..
-provided work for 20 million people..
-reconstructed parks, bridges, buildings, streets, anything that needed to be rebuilt..
-rebuilt roads...
Public Works Administration..
-used to spend big money for big projects..
-spent several billion to create jobs, stabilizing purchase power, and improve public welfare..
-construstion projects..
-still around today..
-successful..
Works progress Administration..
-Largest new deal agency..
-made to help citizens that were suffering from the great depression by providing economic relief..
-helped by constructing schools, parks, and bridges, as well as giving citizens clothes food places to live..
-goal was to employ as many unemployed people on relief until the economy was able to recover..
-operated projects such as arts, drama, media, and literacy..
-heavy tax burden to the tax payers..
-many project.. households service..
-libraries..
-merrit projects--bridges..
-public buildings..
-very successful overall..
-built over 130 hospitals..
-supplied hundreds of jobs for unemployed people..
-paved over 280,000 miles of roads and streets..
-ended in 1941..
-projects organized by the WPA were ended..
...Homes...
Home Owners Loan Corporation..
-refinance homes mortages to prevent foreclosure..
-granted long term mortagages to over a million people facing loss of their homes..
-accoplished their goal by selling bonds to lenders in exchange for their mortagages..
-borrowers were required to make a down payment..
-This act was a huge benefit for American Home Owners..
-when congress passed it they didnt think it was going to be successful..
-ended up being the most successful operation..
Federal Housing Administration..
-provided mortagages insurance on loans made byFHA approved lenders..
-largest insurer of mortagages in the world..
-insured over 34 million properties since starting in 1934..
-Goals were to improve housing standards and conditions..
-provide good home financing system though mortagages loans..
-stabilize the mortagages markets..
-still around today..
-still do mortagage loans..
..Work..
National Labor Relations Act..
-tmade to protect the rights of employees and employers..
-made to stop specific labor and managment practices that are able to harm welfare of the workers the us economy..
-created to make sure the NLRAs provisions are being followed properly..
-organizes labor unions..
helps prevent unfair business practices..
-very successful..
-800,000 women joined unions..
-made employees and employers get along..
-did litttle to stop the depression but helped prevent many future economic troubles..
-known as the Magna Carta of American Labor..
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