Summary of Points
Notes
- Roosevelt created alphabet agencies. They are all three letter acronyms, designed to deal iwth different parts of the new deal
- TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority - Diking of Mississippi River (very Keynesian)
- FCA - Farm Credit Association - Stabilize agricultural prices
- NRA - National Recovery Administration - Stabilize prices and improve labour conditions. Cut down working hours, establish minimum wage.
- CCC - Civil Conservation Corps. Boy scout ish, cleaning up parks, helping with forest fires. Military like, young men working as a collective towards the good of the country
- AAA - Agricultural adjustment act. Proper tools, equipment, and strategy for farmers. Improving the output of the farms in the midwest
Subjunctive Question
Had Alphabet Agencies not been a part of the new deal, how would the New Deal have suffered? Would it have?
Qoutes
"Considered as a single unit, the total volume of WPA employment, during the first six years of its history, is sufficient to stagger even a wild imagination. By contrast, the estimated number of man-years required to build the pyramids of Egypt--which have long been symbolic of gigantic undertakings--seems small."
--Donald S. Howard
"Never before in the history of the human race has a public works program, whose principal object was the mitigation of need due to unemployment, reached the magnitude of the Work Projects Administration. This is true, however you measure it--by persons employed, money expended, or volume of results."
--Joanna C. Colcord
--Donald S. Howard
"Never before in the history of the human race has a public works program, whose principal object was the mitigation of need due to unemployment, reached the magnitude of the Work Projects Administration. This is true, however you measure it--by persons employed, money expended, or volume of results."
--Joanna C. Colcord
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