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Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Federal Emergency Relief Act was passed on May 1933. The goals of the Federal Emergency relief Act were to be effective, provide work for employable people on the relief rolls, to have a diverse variety of relief programs. They distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers. It was dissolved on December 1935 -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
It was passed on May 1933.It aided farmers and regulated crop production. It helps protected farmer from price drops by crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. It is still going on today. -
Home owners loan corporation
It was passed on June 1933.The corporation was established in by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation Act .Its purpose was to refinance home mortgages currently in default to prevent foreclosure.They loaned money at low interest to homeowners it help them to meet the payment.It was ended at 1936. -
Securities and exchange commission
It was form at June 6 1934. It is established bySecurities Exchange Act. They purpose on supervied the stock market and eliminated disdonest practices. It helps prevent people with inside information about companies from "rigging" the stock market for their own profit. It was still going on today. -
Work progress administration
It was form in May 1935. It purpose on quickly created as many jobs as possible-- from construction jobs to positions in symphony orchestras. They employled 8.5 million workers in contruction and other jobs, but more importantly provided work in arks , theater, and literary projects. It was dissolved June 30 1943. -
Rural Electrification Administration
On May 11, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration. It purpose to provide affordable electricity for isolated rural areas. It help encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. . By the early 1970s about 98% of all farms in the United States had electric service, a demonstration of REA's success.The administration was abolished in 1994 and its functions assumed by the Rural Utilities Service. -
Wagner Act
It was passed on June 1935. Its goal was Defined unfair labour practices and established the National Labour RElations Board to settle disputes between wmployers and employees. It helps to hear testimny about unfair practices and to hold elections to find out if workers wanted union representation. -
United State Housing Authority
The United States Housing Authority, created during 1937 within the United States Department of the Interior by the Housing Act of 1937. It purposed on provied federal loans for low-cost public housing.It help provide jobs to the workers. It was abolished pursuant to the Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1947. -
Food, drug and cosmetic Act
It was passed on June 1938.They purpose on requireing manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products. The law provided for three kinds of food standards: 1) standards (definitions) of identity, 2) standards of quality, and 3) standards regulating the fill of container. It is still going on. -
Fair labour standard Act
It was passed on June 1938.It established a minimum hourly wage and a moximum number of hours in the workweek for the entire country.Set rules for the employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory woekfor those under 18. It help them have a better working enironment. The FLSA affected 700,000 workers.It's enforcement was transferred to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1979.
