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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) employed jobless youths in environmentally friendly government projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control. By 1935 half a million young men were earning thirty five dollars a month in CCC camps. It was one of the first New Deal programs, and was intended to promote environmental conservation as well as build good citizens through vigorous, disciplines outdoor labor. This was a relief movement. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Tennessee Valley Authority had its origins in a government built hydroelectric plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama that had powered a World War I munitions factory. It was eventually expanded to support electricity to nearby farmers, and advance the economic and social development of the poverty stricken Tennessee River Valley. This was a part of the first New Deal, and it was a program that was part of recovery and reform, as it was created to address issues; it still exists today. -
Public Works Association (PWA)
The PWA was a New Deal government spending program aimed to create jobs while improving the nation's infrastructure. The PWA budgeted several million dollars to be spent on the construction of public works as a means of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of American industry. This program was a great example of how Roosevelt's New Deal tried to encourage economic growth. This would be part of the relief and reform. -
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Congress established this administration to help revive industry and labor through rational planning. Representatives of business, labor, and government would establish codes of fair practices that would set prices, production levels, minimum wages, and maximum hours within each industry. This administration was part of the recovery and reform part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The idea of supporting labor unions was a huge reform that effects business today. -
Resettlement Administration
This administration relocated struggling urban families to places the government planned. This was a relief movement that was used to help many families. -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The WPA was a relief program that paid people $41.57 a month to build bridges, roads, public buildings, public parks, and airports. The agency supported thousands upon thousands of families, and mainly employed unskilled men (although women were also included). By 1936 3.4 million people were employed on various WPA programs. This was a very big relief program of Roosevelt's, as it helped literally millions of people come out of unemployment during the Great Depression. -
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy. This was a reform movement. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act was an act to promote the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling states to make more adequate provision for old people, blind people, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws. A Social Security board was also created. This was part of the reform deals. -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The AAA supported farmers and helped fix the problem of overproduction and balance supply and demand by paying farmers to lower the amount of crops they were producing. By curtailing farm production, prices could be raised back up. The AAA was eventually declared unconstitutional. This was part of relief and recovery because it was an attempt to fix the problem that had been a cause of the Great Depression.
