aphabet soup fdr

Agriculture adjustment act aaa 1933

Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.

Civil Work administration CWA 1933

Provided public work jobs at $15 a week to 4 million workers in 1934

Civilian conservation core CCC 1933

Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks removed surplus of workers from urban provide healthy conditions for boys and money for families

Federal emergency relief act FERA 1933

Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers

Glass-steagall act FDIC 1933

Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures

National industrial recovery act NIRA 1933

Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition minimum wage and collective bargaining of workers

National youth administration NWA 1935

Provided part-time employment to more than 2 million college and high school students

Public Works administration PWA 1933

Received 3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public work projects

Rural electrification administration REA 1935

Encouraged farmers to join cooperative to bring electricity to farms by 1940 still only 40% of Americans were electrified

securities exchange commission SEC 1934

Regulated stock, market, and restricted margin Buying

Social Security act 1935

Response to critics (Township and long) provided pension unemployment insurance in aid to disabled independent children

Tennessee value Authority TVA 1933

Federal government builds dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity first public competition with private power industries

Wagner NLRB 1935

Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union busting tactics by management

Work progress administration, WPA 1935

Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs provided arts theater and literary projects