The New Deal: Alphabet Soup

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  1. 3. Provided for unemployed, aged, dependent, and handicapped. Financed by FICA taxes paid by employee, matched by employer and Federal government
  2. 5. REA, helped to bring electricity to rural "pockets of poverty" that could not afford lines
  3. 9. FHA, helped repair, rebuild, and insure older homes
  4. 12. closed all banks; government then investigated banks and only those that were sound were allowed to reopen
  5. 16. ACT created the NLRB
  6. 21. SEC, regulated stock and bond trading; regulated exchanges where stocks and bonds are sold, and legislated requirements for disclosure of fair stock information.
  7. 22. NLRB, reaffirmed labor's rights to bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions, to strike, and to arbitration of grievances
  8. 23. WPA, established to put men to work on jobs of public usefulness. 5,900 schoolhouses built or repaired; parks, playgrounds, and pools built; roads, streets, and sewage plants built; 1,000 airfields laid out; 2,500 hospitals placed in areas not previously served. It also had FEDERAL ARTS PROJECTS to provide jobs to continue dramas, concerts, writing (guidebooks, local history books, oral histories), murals, and sculptures. These projects kept the American arts alive and vigorous
  9. 24. TVA, helped to bring electricity to rural "pockets of poverty" that could not afford lines
  10. 25. executive order by FDR making it easier for money to get into circulation. Reconstruction Finance Corporation set new value of gold
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  1. 1. FSA, allowed government to investigate stock market
  2. 2. FSLIC, insured savings of depositors in savings & loan institutions and monitored soundness of insured S&Ls
  3. 4. NRA, administered process for devising industry-wide codes of fair business practices. It recognized the right of labor to bargain collectively for working hours, wages, and conditions. It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935
  4. 6. FERA, gave direct relief in the form of money as aid to states and localities for distribution to needy.
  5. 7. PWA, Loans to private industry to build public works such as dams, ports, bridges, sewage plants, government buildings, power plants, airports, hospitals, and other useful projects.
  6. 8. FDIC, insured savings of bank depositors and monitored soundness of insured banking institutions
  7. 10. CWA, Money to states to build 225,000 miles of roads, 30,000 schools, and 3,700 playing fields and athletic grounds
  8. 11. FCA, helped the 40% of farms that were mortgaged by providing low-interest loans (2.25% per year) through a Federal Land Bank for 50-year terms.
  9. 13. HOLC, lowered mortgages to stop foreclosures
  10. 14. AAA, limited farm production to help raise prices; paid for by taxing food processors. Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court in 1936
  11. 15. NIRA, created the NRA
  12. 17. CCC, provided jobs and relocation for young men (18-25) in rural settings under direction of U.S. Army. Workers built public parks, cut fire trails, planted trees, built small dams, helped with flood control, reclaimed ruined land, drained swamps, and helped with conservation.
  13. 18. NYA, helped keep youth in school with 500,000 helped in colleges and 600,000 in high schools provided with jobs.
  14. 19. FLSA, set minimum wages and maximum working hours
  15. 20. gave government power to investigate banking conditions, vested greater regulatory powers in Federal Reserve Board