CH.+26+The+New+Deal

The Second New Deal In the spring of 1935 FDR created the second new deal that would mainly concentrate on the other two R’s of his philosophy: relief and reform. FDR would create many more new reform and relief programs to try and help out the working or non working class of America. The biggest change was the way the administration had now looked at big business and would work to break up monopolies. -Relief Programs: · __Works Progress Administration(WPA) __: would spend billions of dollars between 1935-1940 to provide people with jobs. After its 1st year it helped employ 3.4 million men and women, it paid them double the relief rate but less than regular workers. Most were put into the construction business where they would build bridges, roads, airports, and public buildings. They also helped hire artists and writers who would be paid to paint murals and write histories. · __Resettlement Administration(RA): __ fell under the direction of Rexford Tugwell and provided loans to sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers. It also established federal camps where migrant workers could find decent housing. -Reform Programs: · __National Labor Relations(Wagner Act): __ replaced the labor provisions of the NIRA and guaranteed a workers right to join a union and a unions right to bargain collectively. It also outlawed business practices that were unfair to labor · __Congress of Industrial Organizations(CIO): __established in 1936 it expanded the constituency of the labor movement by targeting previously unorganized industries where women and minorities constituted much of the work force <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rural Electrification Administration(REA): __ Provided loans for electrical cooperatives to supply power to rural areas <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Federal Taxes: __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Revenue act of 1935 significantly increased taxes on the wealthy’s income and increased the tax on large gifts from parent to child

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· __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Social Security Act: __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people’s working careers. It is also used for monthly payments to retired persons over 65. Also included in this act were those who were unemployed, disabled, and dependent children and their mothers.