Sunday, February 23, 2014

New Deal

The New Deal was a program which involved laws that Franklin D. Roosevelt passed to provide economic relief, recovery, and reform, during the Great Depression.

Some of the Major Programs included:

Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) - The FDIC also known as the Emergency Banking Act, was a program that shut down all the banks to check the health of the banks, and  to make sure that it is secure to restore American faith in the banks.

Securities and Exchange Commission  (SEC) - The SEC program was intended to expose full information on the stocks, and the SEC would be the ones regulating the market.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) - The TVA program helped farmers and created more job opportunities like restoring a power plant, that would help the Tennessee River Valley.

Social Security Act (SSA) - The SSA provided a insurance to the elderly workers, workers caught in accidents, the unemployed, for dependent mothers and children, and the handicapped.

National Labor Relations Board (NLRA) - The NLRA also known as the Wagner Act, it helped look into allegations of wrong-doings by workers, and others, and also conducing elections, and deciding and resolving cases. 

Works Progress Administration (WPA) - The WPA helped provided about 8 million Americans work, by building or reconstructing schools, hospitals, airfields, etc.

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - The FLSA banned child labor, and also set a minimum wage for workers.

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