Created and headed by Harry Hopkins in 1935
Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA spent 11 Billion dollars to give jobs to 8 million Americans.
Built Airports, constructed and maintained roads, made clothes, gave positions in orchestras to musicians and bought art for school walls.
The Works Progress Administration largely affected women, minorities, and young people.

AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT
Affected farmers: more money less work.
Also paid hog farmers to slaughter 6 million
Cotton growers were paid $200 million to plow under 10 million acres of their crop.
Raise crop prices by lowering production: paid farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded.
Land wouldn’t be used as much.

Public Works Administration
• Provided money for community buildings and schools
• Provided 4 million jobs
• Build 4,000 schools
• Employed 50,000 teachers
• Build more than ½ mill. roads

National Recovery Administration
Developed fair competition for the protection of consumers and employers.
Organizing thousands of businesses under fair trade codes
Impacted Employees, Competitors, Consumer,
Businesses.
It encouraged industrial recovery and helped combat unemployment.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
• Old age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses .
• Unemployed compensation system.
• Aid to families with dependent children and the disabled.
• Half of funds from workers, half from employer.
• Federal tax on employers. $15 to $18 per week.

We depend on farmers to supply exports and food for our country
Helped farmers become land owners
Established camps for migrant farm workers
Hired photographers to take pictures of tough rural life
Today, most farmers own their own land and have more profit on crops.
Also, the government now works with farmers hand in hand.

HOLC: government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure
In 1930, buying a house required a 50% down payment,
5-7 years to pay it off, and 6-8% interest.
During Depression banks began foreclosing houses to get back $
Because of The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, people were able to keep their homes and their possessions.
HOLC was cancelled in 1936 but it set a foundation

FLSA
 Established minimum/maximum # of hours in a week nationwide
 Affected everyone-workers/employed
 Set Rules for employment workers under 16 and banned hazardous work for those under 18
 Everyone had equal opportunity and were not overworked or overpaid
 Minimum Wage

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Act provided insurance for accounts for up to $5,000.
To reassure customers that their money was safe.
• Today it provides insurance for up to $100,000.
• It effected anyone that wanted a loan, or kept money in the bank
• The act made it so people could take out loans.
• People would be worry free about keeping their $ in the bank
• This re-created the bank cycle.

• Supervised stock market and eliminated dishonest practices
• Helped regulate banking and investment activities
• Affected everyone who bought stock and bonds
• Kept America from going into another
Depression

Provided jobs for three million men and their families, hope, new opportunities, and urbanization.
No dust bowl, built roads/parks, and helped soil. It affected young men ages 18-25.
Flood control projects
Free food and uniforms

*Built roads, great dams, and hydroelectric plants in seven of the poorest states.
*Set aside large wilderness areas
*Attracted more people to these areas
*Lots of jobs

• Provides education, jobs, counseling, recreation for the Youth (16-25)
• Youth given a chance to go to college
• Student loans and earn a living
• Part of WPA and operated for 4 yrs

C.W.A-CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION
• C.W.A provided 4 million immediate jobs during the winter 1933-1934.
• Mostly manual labor jobs