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2. to supply electricity to rural communities
8. It employed more than eight million people to build roads and highways, bridges, schools, airports, parks, and other public projects
10. to improve the lot of the poor farmers so poignantly depicted in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath
14. stimulating the growth of the building industry

1. provided construction jobs for more than four million people who were paid $15 per week to work on schools, roads, and sewers
3. provided assistance for the unemployed, supporting nearly five million households each month by funding work projects for more than 20 million people
4. revitalized the region by building 16 dams to control flooding, generate hydraulic power, and increase agricultural production
5. to merge the administrative responsibilities for regulating broadcasting and wire communications into one centralized agency
6. protect the rights of organized labor by legalizing practices such as "closed shops" in which only union members could work and collectively bargain
7. setting forth stringent regulations for banks and providing depositors with insurance of up to $5,000 through the newly formed FDIC
9. to restore the stability of the stock market after the crash of October 1929 and to prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities
11. to administer a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and a public assistance program for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled
12. hiring more than 2.5 million young men to work on environmental projects
13. established the minimum wage