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Public Works Administration
-To encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works, and for other purposes
-Recovery -
Emergency Banking Relief Act
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration
-Allotted a startup fund of $500 million to help the needy and unemployed
-Relief -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
-Designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
-Reform -
National Industrial Recovery Act
-Passed to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
-Recovery -
Civil Works Administration
-The CWA was designed to put jobless Americans back to work and to use them on beneficial public projects
-Relief -
National Housing Act
-Passed to encourage improvement in housing standards and conditions, to provide a system of mutual mortgage insurance, and for other purposes
-Recovery -
Works Progress Administration
-Employed mostly unskilled men to carry out public works infrastructure.
-Relief -
Social Security Act
-A fund supported by taxes to help pay for old-age pensions
-Reform -
Fair Labor Standards Act
-established minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
-Reform
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