FDR Programs

  • Works Progress Administration (1935)

    Replaced (CWA) only lasting one year
    in 8 years, 14 million people were employed for this program
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    The Social Security Act (1935)

    Insurance for old age retired people
    Unemployed farmers collected small amounts of money from the government
    Disability for the hurt or sick
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (1938)

    The government paid farmers a very small amount of money to reduce the planting of crops or raising livestock for slaughter
    Bringing the supply and demand back to normal and giving farmers will get their jobs back

    This program gave farmers other jobs like destroying live crops or cutting down trees