FDR New Deal

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• provide jobs to unemployed by giving them conservation work

• provided housing, food, skill training

Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

• helped relief people suffering

• funding for infastructure

• jobless teachers oppurtunity to work

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Supported job increases by building infastructure

• funded the arts

• women given jobs in rural areas

National Youth Administration (NYA)

• Encouraged youth development (part of WPA)

• provided education and jobs

• job training, higher skilled workers for jobs

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• manage resources like river systems/dams

• operate public power

• conservation

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• restore farm purchasing power

• try to balance supply/demand by providing subsidies to farmers

• deemed unconstitutional

Soil conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (SCDAA)

• supported farm income by making soil conservation and soil building payments to farmers

• payed farmers to minimize production and protect the land

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

• provided loans to people who couldn’t get them elsewhere

• allowed farmers to purchase tools/supplies

• improve sanitary facilities

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• backed up all bank deposits up to 5,000—>no bank failure

• watchdog

Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)

• protected people from unfair business practices

• demanded clear financial reports from businesses

• overseed corporations

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

• protected labor force

• minimum wage

• 40-hr workweeks

• banned child labor

• more power to secretary of labor to enforce laws

Social Security Act (SSA)

• provide general welfare

• created system to provide old-age benefits, unemployment, insurance