The New Deal
Daisy Friedman
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 8:53:33 PM Central Daylight Time
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Works Progress Administration WPA The WPA, the Public Works Administration (PWA) and other federal assistance programs put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. The WPA is a significant deal because it revived the arts in a time of deep despair in our country, and what better way to bring us out than through art. It gave young people the chance to once again express themselves. WPA workers built highways, schools, hospitals, airports and playgrounds. They restored theaters–such as the Dock Street Theater in Charleston, S.C.–and built the ski lodge at Oregon’s Mt. Hood. The WPA also put actors, writers and other creative arts professionals back to work by sponsoring federally funded plays, art projects, such as murals on public buildings, and literary publications. FDR safeguarded private enterprise from competition with WPA projects by including a provision in the act that placed wage and price controls on federally funded products or services.
Daisy Friedman
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 8:53:49 PM Central Daylight Time
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National Recovery Administration The purpose of the law and the establishment of National Recovery Administration was to address the crisis in industry by suspending the antitrust laws and allowed the government, businesses and labor to work together in setting up new, voluntary business rules of fair competition.The rules addressed many issues including working hours, productivity, minimum wages, union membership and setting prices.
This program gave the American people a chance to get back on their feet during the economic decline of the time. It aided the working class citizens to balance work and earning money with time with there family. The NRA allowed industries to get together and write "codes of fair competition." The codes were intended to reduce "destructive competition" and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours, as well as minimum prices at which products could be sold. Daisy Friedman
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 8:55:58 PM Central Daylight Time
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Civilian Conservation Act CCC The CCC was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. Close to the heart of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC combined his interests in conservation and universal service for youth. He believed that this civilian “tree army” would relieve the rural unemployed and keep youth “off the city street corners.” The work focused on soil conservation and reforestation. Most important, the men planted millions of trees on land made barren from fires, natural erosion, or lumbering—in fact, the CCC was responsible for over half the reforestation, public and private, done in the nation’s history. Corpsmen also dug canals and ditches, built over thirty thousand wildlife shelters, stocked rivers and lakes with nearly a billion fish, restored historic battlefields, and cleared beaches and campgrounds.
Daisy Friedman
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 8:53:11 PM Central Daylight Time
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Daisy Friedman
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 9:00:24 PM Central Daylight Time
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