New Deal/Addendum

New Deal measures

(For the sequence of New Deal legislative measures, see the New Deal Timelines subpage [[1]]).

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 1933 and 1938: raised farm prices by cutting total farm output of major crops.

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933: employed young men to perform unskilled work in rural areas; under Army supervision; separate program for Native Americans.

• Civil Works Administration (CWA), 1933-34: provided temporary jobs to millions of unemployed.

• Economy Act.

• Emergency Banking Act.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures deposits in banks in order to restore public confidence in banks.

• Federal Emergency Relief Act.

• Farm Security Administration (FSA).

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). ERA, a Hoover loan program to states for relief; replaced by FERA in 1933 to give grants to states to operate relief projects for the unskilled; replaced by WPA in 1935.

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)[2].

• Glass-Steagall Act.

• Gold Reserve Act.

• Home Owners Refinancing Act.

• Indian Reorganization Act, 1934.

• National Planning Board, also called the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB), to assist in planning the economy by providing recommendations and information.

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) / Wagner Act, 1935: set up National Labor Relations Board to supervise labor-management relations.

• National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA).

• National Recovery Act (NRA), 1933: industries set up codes to reduce unfair competition, raise wages and prices;

• Public Works Administration (PWA), 1933: built large public works projects [3].

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation a Hoover agency expanded under Jesse Holman Jones to make large loans to big business.

• Resettlement Administration (RA).

• Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

• Securities Act of 1933, created the Securities and Exchange Commission. Codified standards for sale and purchase of stock.

• Securities and Exchange Commission[4].

• Social Security Act (SSA), 1935: provided financial assistance to: elderly, handicapped, funded by employee and employer payroll contributions.

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1933: centered on dams that generated electricity on the Tennessee River, [5].

• United States Housing Authority, 1937 slum-clearance.

• Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935: employment-creation.