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Emergency Banking Relief Act (Recovery)
- First New Deal - This act allowed the government to examine all banks and allow those that were financially stable to open. This was created in reaction to the financially adverse conditions of the Great Depression.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (Relief)
(CCC) - First New Deal - This provided jobs and relocation for young men (18-25) in building parks, planting trees, building small dams, assisting in food control and etc. This was created to help young men have a chance at creating a new life for themselves, and to help support their family by sending money home. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (Relief)
- First New Deal - This was a new deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven- U.S. - state region around the Tennessee River Valley. It created many dams that provided electricity as well as jobs.
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Homeowners Loan Corporation (Recovery)
- First New Deal - This loaned money to homeowners to help them refinance their mortgages and avoid losing their property through bank foreclosures. This was created due to the 1929 crash and the collapse of the housing industry. By the HOLC’s final year in 1936, it had provided just over a million new mortgages, had lent out approximately $350 billion ($750 billion today), and by 1934 about one in five mortgages in America were owned by the corporation.
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Civilian Works Administration (Relief)
(CWA) - First New Deal - This was created to create jobs for the unemployed. It focused on high-paying jobs in the construction sector resulted in a much greater expense to the federal government than originally anticipated. -
Federal Housing Act (Relief)
(FHA) - First New Deal - The purpose of the FHA was to provide bank loans to help repair, rebuild, and insure older homes to low- and moderate-income families. This succeeded in stimulating the revival of the construction industry and reemployment of workers in the building trades. -
Work Progress Administration (Relief)
- Second New Deal - This was headed by Harry L. Hopkins, and provided jobs and income to the unemployed but couldn't work more than 30 hours a week. It built many public buildings and roads, and as well operated a large arts project.
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National Youth Administration (Relief)
- Second New Deal - This provided education, jobs, counseling and recreation for young people, and gave part time positions at schools for students allowed for aid in high school, college, and grad school, as well as giving part time jobs to drop outs. This helped in providing an education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.
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National Labor Relations Act (Reform)
- Second New Deal - Also known as the Wagner Act created the NLRB and reaffirmed laborers' rights to bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions, the right to strike, and the arbitration for grievances. This also curtailed certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, business, and the U.S. economy.
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Social Security Act (Reform)
- Second New Deal - This guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; this set up federal and state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependant mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health.
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Farm Security Administration (Relief)
- Second New Deal - This was to provide housing and loans to help tenant farmers become independent. But relatively few tenants received loans because the FSA was starved for funds and ran up against the major farm organizations intent on serving their own interests.
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Fair Labor Standards Act (Reform)
- Second New Deal - This established a minimum wage of 40 cents per hour and a maximum work week of 40 hours. Employers who are involved in interstate or foreign commerce are covered by the FLSA, and are enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor, administered by the wage and hour division.
