Employment Projects
Business Assistance and Reform Programs
Farm Relief and Rural Development
Housing
Labor Relations and Retirement
100
provided job training for unemployed young people and part time jobs for need students
What was the National Youth Administration?
100
required manufacturers to list ingredients in food, drugs, and cosmetic products
What was the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?
100
provided affordable electricity for isolated rural areas
What was the Rural Electrification Administration?
100
loaned money at low interest rates to people who could not meet mortgage payments
What was the Home Owners loan Corporation?
100
defined unfair labor practices and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes b/w employers and employees
What was the National Labor Relations Board (Wagner Act)?
200
helped states to provide aid for the unemployed
What was the Federal Emergency Relief Adminisatration?
200
protected bank deposits upto $5,000 and regulated banking and investment activities
What was the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation?
200
developed the resources of the Tennessee Valley
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
insured loans for building and repairing homes
What was the Federal Housing Administration?
200
established a minimum hourly wage and a maximum number of hours in the workweek for the entire nation set rules for the employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory work for those under 18
What was the Fair Labor Standards Act?
300
provided work in federal jobs
What was the Civil Works Administration?
300
created 7-memeber board to regulate nation's money supply and the interest rate on loans
What was the Banking Act of 1935?
300
aided farmers and regulated crop production
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
300
provided federal loans for low-cost public housing
What was the United States Housing Authority?
300
provided a pension for retired workers ad their spouses and aided people with disabilities
What was the Social Security Administration?
400
quickly created as many jobs as possible- from construction jobs to positions in symphony orchestras
What was the Works Progress Administration?
400
banks were inspected by Treasury Department and those stable could reopen
What was the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
400
aided farmers and regulated crop production
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
400
insured loans for building and repairing homes
What was the Federal Housing Administration?
400
defined unfair labor practices and established the NLRB to settle disputes b/w employees and employers
What was the NLRB/Wagner Act?
500
provided jobs for single males on conservation projects
What was the Civilian Conservation Corp?
500
established fair codes of fair competition
What was the National Recovery Administration?
500
provided affordable electricity for isolated rural areas
What was the Rural Electrification Administration?
500
provided federal loans for low-cost public housing
What was the United States Housing Authority?
500
established a min. hourly wage and a max. number of hours in workweek for whole nation set rules for employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory work for those under 18
What was the Fair Labor Standards Act?