Works Progress Administration Created and headed by Harry Hopkins

in 1935

Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA spent 11 Billion dollars to give jobs to 8 million Americans.

Built Airports, constructed and maintained roads, made clothes, gave positions in orchestras to musicians and bought art for school walls.

The Works Progress Administration largely affected women, minorities, and young people.

AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACTAGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT

Affected farmers: more money less work.

Also paid hog farmers to slaughter 6 million

Cotton growers were paid $200 million to plow under 10 million acres of their crop.

Helped farmers earn more money and boost the economy.

Sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded.

Land wouldn’t be used as much.

Wanted to reduce supply and boost prices.

• Provided money for community buildings and schools

• Provided 4mill. immediate jobs

• Build 4,000 schools

• 50,000 teachers

• Build more than ½ mill. roads

Public Works Administration

Developed fair competition for the protection of consumers and employers.

Organizing thousands of businesses under fair trade codes

Impacted Employees, Competitors, Consumer, Businesses.

It encouraged industrial recovery and help combat widespread unemployment.

National Recovery Administration

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

• Old age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses .

• Unemployed compensation system.

• Aid to families with dependent children and the disabled.

• Half of funds from workers, half from employer.

• Federal tax on employers. $15 to $18 per week.

• Federal funds.

Farm Security Administration

We depend on farmers to supply exports and food for our country

Helped farmers become land owners

Established camps for migrant farm workersHired photographers to take pictures of tough rural life

Today, most farmers own their own land and have more profit on crops.

Also, the government now works with farmers hand in hand.

HOME OWNER’S LOAN CORPORATION

HOLC provided government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure because they couldn’t make loan payments.

In 1930, buying a house required a 50% down payment, 5-7 years to pay it off, and 6-8% interest.

When the banks went under during the depression, they began foreclosing houses to get back money people owed them.

Because of The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, people were able to keep their homes and their possessions. HOLC was cancelled in 1936 but it set a foundation for the idea that people should have some assurance of being able to keep their home.

Established minimum/maximum # of hours in a week nationwideAffected everyone-workers/employedSet Rules for employment workers under 16 and banned hazardous work for those under 18Everyone had equal opportunity and were not overworked or overpaidMinimum Wage

FLSA

• Act provided insurance for accounts for up to $5,000. To reassure customers that their money was safe.

• Today it provides insurance for up to $100,000.• It effected anyone that wanted a loan, or kept money in the

bank…… so pretty much everyone.• The importance of the act made it so people could take out loans.• People would be worry free about keeping their money in the

bank because it would be safe, and covered by the F.D.I.C. act.• This re-created the bank cycle.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Established by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933

SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

• Supervised stock market and eliminated dishonest practices• It also helped to regulate banking and

investment activities • Affected everyone who bought stock

and bonds• Kept America from going into another

Depression

Provided jobs for three million men and their families, hope, new opportunities, and urbanization.

No dust bowl, built roads/parks, and helped soil. It affected young men ages 18-25.

Provided jobs for three million men

Flood control projects

Free food and uniforms

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD (NLRB)

•Created in 1935 under the Wagner Act•Created to prevent unfair labor practices and mediate problems between workers and their employers.

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

Built roads, great dams, and hydroelectric plants in seven of the poorest states.

Set aside large wilderness areas

It gave people jobs

Also attracted more people to these areas

Affected the environment also because the plants, dams created a lot of air, water, and land pollution.

What TVA did:

NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION

• Provides education, jobs, counseling, recreation for the Youth• People youth/ given a

chance to go to college• Student loans and earn a

living!

C.W.A-CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION

• C.W.A provided 4 million immediate jobs during the winter 1933-1934.

• School teacher’s received better salaries.