https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf Farm Security Administration en-us 2018-03-12 16:16:06 UTC 2023-04-14 06:57:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240966798 Initially created as the Resettlement Administration in 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States, the Farm Security Administration was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty]]> 2018-03-12 16:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240966798 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240968117 The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming.]]> 2018-03-12 16:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240968117 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240968904 President Roosevelt created the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937]]> 2018-03-12 16:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240968904 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240974520 The FSA was not a relief agency, but instead it relied on a network of cooperation between states and county offices to determine which clients needed loans that could not get this credit somewhere else. Farmers could use these loans to buy land, equipment, livestock, or seeds. Additionally, the FSA assisted families by providing healthcare, education, and training programs for participating families. The goal of these measures was to help families become self-sustaining.]]> 2018-03-12 16:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240974520 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240975434 On March 9, 1933, new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt called a special session of Congress, telling them that unemployment could only be solved “by direct recruiting by the Government itself.” For the next three months, Roosevelt proposed, and Congress passed, a series of important bills that attempted to deal with the problem of unemployment. These programs became known as Roosevelt’s New Deal.]]> 2018-03-12 16:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240975434 19wymancol https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240977060 2018-03-12 16:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19wymancol/wh82575ponrf/wish/240977060