Notes 2-5--2-9

Monday-

Bonus Expedtionary Force

  • Promised a bonus check for fightning in ww1
  • Wanted it early and protested

MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton

  • Took people out of the city peolple hurt and 2 killed

FDR's Brain Trust

  • FDR's Cabinet

Fireside Chats

  • Radio addresses by the president to the people

Deficit Spending and Priming the Pump

  • Giving the money for the New Deal program for the Economy.

New Deal Programs

Farmers- Gave farmers electricity and jobs to give others electricity.

 

Tuesday- Presentations

Unemployment- CCC gave single men jobs for one dollar a day.

 Housing - Building low cost homes for people to live is (USHA)

 

Wednesday- Presentations

PWA- Controlled by the gov't Awarded big projects Highways, airports, dams, irrigation 34,000 large scale projects, core industry of steel and lumber skilled and uneployed people gained jobs.

CWA- Created manual labor jobs during the winter helped during the depression. Very succesful 4 million were employed. 44,000 new miles of roads, 1,000 miles of water mains and 1,000 miles o fnew or improved airports. 

EBRA-  Closed banks to stop transactions and reopened them. Restored public confidence in the nation's finacial system.

 

Thursday- Sick

 

Friday- Presentations

Social Secutity Administration-  Start paying for this through taxes you recive benifits when you turn 62 you get a paycheck every month. For disabled, older people, loss of a family member.

TVA-  Built hydroelectric dams around the area which would bring electriciy to thousands of homes. Employed people to build and run these damns over 28,000.

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