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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Depositors would be insured for up to 25,000 (250,000 today)
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
-250,000 young men trained on army bases and were then sent to national parks to plant trees
- earning a dollar a day -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- 8 million people were on public assistance
- By 1935 almost 3 billion has been funneled to state and local agencies
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Tennessee Valley Authority
- building dams
- building power stations to help with:
- electricity
- flood control
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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Main goal was to stimulate business and reduce unemployment by:
- stabilizing prices
- raising wages
- providing jobs -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Make work projects:
- construction
- picking up litter
- raking leaves
- 750 million spent on this program -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Replaced the Civil Works Administration but only lasted one year
- 5 billion allotted
- Worked on airports, public buildings, bridges and roads
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Social Security Act
- Unemployment insurance for workers
- Pensions for retired workers
- Payments went out to blind and disabled workers
- Founded by taxes