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Civilian Conservatoin Corps. (CCC)
This Act was created to send 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
This act was to protect Farmers from price drops by providing corp subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
It ws created by the federal government to build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricty. First public competition with private power industries. -
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
It was created to enforce codes of fair competition minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers. -
Glass-Steagall Act (FDIC)
This act was passed by Congress in 1933 and prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. It was enacted as an emergency response to the failure of nearly 5,000 banks during the Great Depression. -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
This act employed over 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs but more important provided work in arts, theater and literray projects. -
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
By 1942, nearly 50% of US farms had electricity, and by 1952 almost all US farms had electricity. In 1949, the REA became authorized to provide loans to rural telephone cooperatives. Administrators of the Rural Electrification Administration as an Independent Agency. -
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Provided part time employment to more than two million college and high school students. -
Social Security Act
This was an act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.
