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This addendum is a continuation of the article New Deal.

New Deal measures

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


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

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.

National Planning Board, also called the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB), to assist in planning the economy by providing recommendations and information. Fredric A. Delano was appointed head of the NRPB.


National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

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


Resettlement Administration (RA)

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

  • Securities Act of 1933, created the SEC, 1933: codified standards for sale and purchase of stock, required risk of investments to be accurately disclosed; still exists


  • Social Security Act (SSA), 1935: provided financial assistance to: elderly, handicapped, paid for by employee and employer payroll contributions; required years contributions, so first payouts were 1942; still exists

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)TVA</ref>.

United States Housing Authority, created in 1937 with some Republican support to abolish slums.

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935: a national labor program for 2+ million unemployed; created useful construction work for unskilled men; also sewing projects for women and arts projects for unemployed artists, musicians and writers.