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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
This agency worked to give farmers their autonomy and independence back after facing difficult times in face of the first World War. -
Farm Credit Administration
This agency worked to provide credit to farmers, ranchers, agricultural cooperatives. -
Civilian Conservation Act Corps
This agency worked to resolve the unemployment issue facing the nation after the Great Depression by placing young men into national parks and reserved lands to help better the state of the country. -
Home Owners Loan Corporation
This agency worked to prevent home foreclosures by providing home-owners with refinanced mortgages and low-interest loans to assist with the damages done after the Great Depression. -
National Industrial Recovery Act
This act worked to guarantee laborders a right to collective bargaining and supervise fair trade codes. This was passed by President Roosevelt in hopes of helping with the recovery of the U.S.'s economy after the Great Depression. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
This act worked to regulate large public companies, restore investor confidence by giving investors more reliable information regarding their dealings, and to prevent fraud. -
National Labor Relations Act
This act protects workers by providing employees at private-sector workplaces the fundamental right to seek better working conditions and designation of representation without fear of retaliation. -
Social Security Act
This act created a fund that could be used to help people financially once they retire. This fund could also be used to financially help disabled Americans. -
United States Housing Authority
This act provided $500 million in loans for low-cost housing projects within the nation, which worked to address slum conditions and provide the poor with cheap housing. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
This act was also created in order to protect workers and improve wages and working conditions. Additionally, this act worked to get rid of child labor and it established a federal minimum age.