Alphabet Soup of Agencies

By jd0622
  • Emergency Banking Act (EBA)

    Emergency Banking Act (EBA)
    Attempt to stabilize the banking system.
  • Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

    Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
    regulates and examines the banks, associations and related entries to (FCS) Farm credit system.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

    Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
    Its was a federal law designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    Provided jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
    Was to pervert bank failures. Its would insure commercial bank deposit of 2,5000 with a pool of money collected by the bank
  • Public Works Administration (PWA)

    Public Works Administration (PWA)
    It was a large-scale public works construction agency in the U.S.
  • National Recovery Administration (NRA)

    National Recovery Administration (NRA)
    The goal was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices
  • Civil Works Administration (CWA)

    Civil Works Administration (CWA)
    Was made to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for million of unemployed men. Temporary jobs.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

    Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
    was designed to restore investor confidence in our capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information and clear rules of honest dealing,
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

    Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
    Regulates radios, televisions, phone industries. Also regulates all interstate communications such as wire, satellite cable and more.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)

    Works Progress Administration (WPA)
    Employed millions of job-seekers to carry out pubic work projects, including constructions of pubic roads and buildings
  • Social Security Act (SSA)

    Social Security Act (SSA)
    It created a social security program as well as insurance against unemployment
  • United States Housing Authority (USHA)

    United States Housing Authority (USHA)
    It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost constructions
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

    Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
    Is responsible for the regulation and oversight of civil aviation within the U.S. as well as surrounding waters
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

    Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    was a voluntary public work relief program in the U.S. for unemployed and unmarried men.