What did Roosevelt do to alleviate the problems of the G.D cont.
National Youth Administration
- Focused on providing education and work for people between ages 16 and 25.
- Youth development
- Paid 6 to 40 dollars a month for work study
- 10 to 25 dollars a month for part time jobs
Rural Electrification Act
- Provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve rural areas of the U.S.
NLRB- Wagner Act
- Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management
- Formed on July,5 1935
- Created the National Labor Relations Board, which manages union-management relations.
- Established the federal government as the regulator and ultimate arbitrator of labor relations.
Glass Steagall Act
- Banking act o 1933
- FDIC
- Insures peoples money in banks
National Industrial Recovery Act
- Two main sections, Title 1 and Title 2.
- Section 7(a) of the bill, which protected collective bargaining rights for unions, proved contentious.
- US supreme court held this act as unconstitutional
- This act promoted economically harmful monopolies and it was poorly administered
- Title 2 Established the Public Works Administrations
Security Exchange Comission
- Established in 1934 in order to regulate/watch over the stock market
Works Progress Administration
- Employed unskilled workers to do public projects
- Created 3 million jobs for men and women in 1938
- Provided jobs for 8 years
- Branch of the federal Emergency Relief Administration
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