New Deal agencies by Ms.Bray https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp Post your teams summaries. en-us 2019-02-20 05:47:38 UTC 2023-07-26 16:22:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png Emergency Banking Act ( EBA) mia_bray18 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335566099 an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system. Fears of bank closures spread from state to state as people rushed to withdraw their deposits while they still could do so. Within weeks, all other states held their own bank holidays in an attempt to stem the bank runs. President Franklin Roosevelt set out to rebuild confidence in the nation's banking system. On March 6 he declared a four-day national banking holiday that kept all banks shut until Congress could act. The new law allowed the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets so that banks that reopened would be able to meet every legitimate call. 

We do currently have the FDIC which federally insures banks and guarantees that no matter what happens the clients money will be available to them. It was a vital aspect in the push for a stabilized economy and still serves a purpose today. It has been an effective agency for over 100 years. ]]> 2019-02-26 18:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335566099 Tennessee Valley Authority Fujia robert ben https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335601519 The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned and controlled agency first created during the Great Depression. This agency was responsible for navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer creation, and economical development particularly in its namesake the Tennessee Valley which was severely affected. The main goal of the TVA is to quickly modernize the regions economy. Roosevelt was able to strong-arm local utilities companies into either being swallowed by the TVA or being shut down. As a result, the TVA became--and still is--the largest utilities company in Southern United States. Before the TVA, the Tennessee Valley region was even by Depression era standards, terrible. Three in ten people had malaria, the over-farmed soil was depleted, crops were failing, and ten percent of the forest was being burned annually. The TVA was able to create fertilizers that replenished the soil, controlled forest fires, saved the environment, and gave electricity to many families in the TVA through hydro-power. The supply of electricity brought industry and jobs to the valley and rejuvenated the economy. The TVA was such a success that was absolutely necessary. Although the damming did displace many, the quality of life was vastly improved. The TVA continues to this day.

]]> 2019-02-26 19:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335601519 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) hl59033 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335602351 The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was created in 1933 as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal to raise agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. During the Great Depression, farmers were driven into debt due to agricultural surpluses and falling demand for farm products in Europe which led to lowered prices. The AAA paid farmers to destroy their agricultural surpluses and to reduce their planting acreage, raising the money through a tax on companies which processed agricultural products. Although the AAA had limited impact, it was favored widely by farmers, and in 1936, it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 

]]> 2019-02-26 19:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335602351 Works Progress Administration rm58599 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335602768 By: Ruggaya Musa, Astha Sahoo, Anna McSorley, Lia Elms
The Works Progress Administration was an agency headed by Harry Hopkins that employed millions of people, mostly unskilled workers, for public works projects. This agency tried to address the issues regarding unemployment and poverty  in the United States during the Great Depression.
The Works Progress Administration projects built infrastructure like schools, parks, waterlines, bridges, airports, and roads. Through these projects, the WPA created millions of jobs. Before the agency was disbanded, the WPA employed over 8.5 million americans and created about 1.4 million public projects. It put millions of women to work too, in classrooms, cafeterias, and sewing rooms. Before 1943, the WPA employed about ¼ of the nation’s unemployed. In addition, the WPA provided federal funding for students, and artists. 
The Works Progress Administration, despite its accomplishments, had many failures as well. It was known that the Works Progress Administration hired unskilled workers who had poor work habits and exceeded $11 billion which later became a large financial problem that it had to be put to an end on December 4th 1942. They later faced growing conservative opposition in the state and was seen as a “seedbed for communists”.
The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act was signed into law on January 21, 1935 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Under this act, Executive Order 734 was issued by FDR, effectively creating the WPA. The Works Progress Administration put around 8.5 million American citizens to work during it’s 8 years of existence and improved the lives of those it supported (through its provision of jobs for the unemployed). When it was no longer needed, FDR dissolved the agency (February 1, 1943).
]]> 2019-02-26 19:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335602768 National Recovery Administration kb58949 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335603211 BY: Katie Borowsky, Cooper Welsh, Darren Wong, Jared Hunt
The objective of the NRA was to bring industry, labor, and government together to create “fair practices” and set prices. It set the minimum wage and encouraged people to join unions. 557 codes were established in order to achieve these goals. In addition, 208 codes were added to fully fulfill their standards. However, these codes aimed to help larger corporations. The head of the NRA was biased towards them, and ended up negatively affecting the smaller companies. It ultimately impacted 22 million workers. The NRA was deemed unconstitutional in the Supreme Court case A.L.A Schechter Poultry Corp v. United States, as its creation violated the constitutional separation of powers. However, many of the NRA’s new provisions were included in the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, a bill passed soon after the NRA was struck down. 😉


]]> 2019-02-26 19:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335603211 Fair Labor Standards Act ka85507 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335615966 By Karim Abou Najm, Yudi Wu, James Olichney, Emily Cao

The Fair Labor Standards Act was an agency created to ensure extra pay for overtime workers. Additionally, the agency set a minimum wage and upheld some child labor laws. It was created to address the problem of worker exploitation, specifically the exploitation of desperate overtime and low-skill workers. Specifically, the Fair Labor Standards Act adopted an eight hour work day and forty hour work week and allowed workers to receive wages for four hours of overtime. A minimum wage was set, and workers who worked extra hours received 150% of their normal wage. Children under the age of eighteen could not perform dangerous tasks, and children under the age of sixteen could not work in the mining or manufacturing sectors or work during school hours. It gave rise to 700,000 workers. The Fair Labor Standards Act established a precedent for federal intervention in employment standards. It was challenged in the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Darby, and was upheld as constitutional, granting the government power to regulate interstate employment conditions. This ruling and its federal connotations afforded Roosevelt the ability to implement more reforms without fear of them being striked down. The FLSA, by creating a minimum wage and holding certain conditions as necessary for working, served to allow some rest for certain workers, and carried on to be an essential aspect of labor. The FLSA is still valid today, but there were many amendments and rule changes added to the act. As time passed, the act was adjusted multiple times to keep up with the changes in economy, and accommodate the workers’ demand in terms of fair labor. For example, the latest rule change added by the Obama Administration further protected the workers by giving them overtime paid if their weekly salary is less than $913. Overall, the act is still important, since it continued to ensure that the workers are protected from any inequality or unfair actions against them.

]]> 2019-02-26 19:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/335615966 Social Security Administration (Kailani, Charlie, Jishnu, Norea, Maya) nm83425 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/336092875 Created: 1935
Purpose: The SSA was a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. The SSA was a Board established to administer the Social Security Act, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935. It was responsible for old age insurance, unemployment compensation and public assistance titles of the Social Security Act. The Chairman of the Board reported directly to the President until July 1939 when the Board was placed organizationally under the newly established Federal Security Agency. Social Security is important for maintaining financial stability of the elderly as they can no longer make their own pay during retirement. It also encouraged elderly people to retire earlier, opening up jobs for the younger working class.  The reason it’s going to die is due to the baby boomer population.

It is still used today, and today’s elderly retired population rely on it for economic support. As such we believe that it was an important, necessary, and relevant Act/Association by FDR.

]]> 2019-02-27 19:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/336092875 Civilian Conservation Corps cc58564 https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/336095286 The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC), also known as “Roosevelt’s Tree Army”, was a public relief program that targeted relief for the unemployed and unmarried men ages 18-26. It was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The course of the program operated for nine years and provided 3 million young men with shelter, clothing, food, and a wage of $30 per month. The CCC was the most popular New Deal programs among the American public. Those who enrolled in the CCC were rewarded with better physical condition, increased employability, and increased morale. The CCC also led to the rise of public and wildlife consciousness and provided a model for future state and federal conservation programs.
Although the CCC was a temporary agency (Congress voted to close it in 1942) it was successful in increasing employment during the Great Depression. It’s necessity dissipated as industrial efforts were given to WWII. The CCC ultimately helped efforts for conservation of natural resources and quality of life of individual men.

]]> 2019-02-27 19:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/336095286 Civil Works Administration https://padlet.com/mia_bray18/v2528fn5aolp/wish/336100824 By Alice Ferrer, Umika Kuroda, Diane Cai, Webb Johnson
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was created on November 9, 1933, as part of Roosevelt’s plan to pull America out of the Great Depression. It helped millions of Americans by creating new public works projects that opened up new job opportunities. The projects  helped build/ improve over 500,000 miles of roads, laid 12 million miles of pipes, and created thousands of schools, airports, and playgrounds. Unskilled laborers received $0.50 an hour working on these projects, while skilled workers earned $1.20 an hour, allowing Americans to support their families. Overall, the CWA improved the infrastructure of the United States while addressing the issues of the Great Depression. The CWA was disbanded in March 31, 1934, partially due to economic concerns, because the projects contributed to the federal debt by $850 million. Additionally, the possibility of Americans becoming too dependent on federal labor emerged. Instead of the federal government providing jobs for the people, it became the responsibility of individual states to organize projects. 





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