New Deal

New Deal programs

55621291	CCC	CIvilian Conservation Corporation: Recovery - offered work to unemployed young men. Offered houseing, planted trees, built bridges, parks
55621292	TVA	Tennessee Valley Authority: Recovery - built dams and provided inexpensive electricity to southern states
55621293	FHA	Federal Housing Administration: Reform to regulate mortgage interest rates for homeowner loans
55621294	SSA	Social Security Act: Relief passed in 1935 to provide Americans with retirement benefits. Mandated unemployment and disability insurance. Workers and employers pay into this fund.
55621295	SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission: Reform to oversee the stocks and bonds market. It regulates to protect the investors and public from abuses.
55621296	Fair Labor Standards Act	Benefitted most workers and continues to do so. Reform: Set minimum wage, created 9-5 workday and established a 5 day workweek. It mandated a 5 day; 40 hour workweek establishing overtime after that. This was not established to create a shorter work week, it was to spread the work around and make available to millions out of work.
55621297	Fireside Chats	Chats or informative and easily understood radio addresses to the American public to restore confidence. These chats brought FDR right into every American's living room.
55621298	work relief	GIving unemployed, needy people government jobs.
55621299	subsidy	Grants of money paid to someone.
55621300	New Deal	The new laws and proposed by FDR and passed by Congress during Roosevelt's administration.
55621301	FDR	Our 32nd President: Frankiin D. Roosevelt -1933 to 1945. died in office.
55621302	On Margin	Purchasing stock by paying only a fraction of its worth and borrowing the rest from their broker in hopes of paying him back.
55621303	Stock Exchange	An organized system for buing and selling shares or investments in corporations
55621304	Default	fail to meet loan payments
55621305	Relief	Aid to the needy
55621306	FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Reform set to renew confidence in banks. Guaranteed funds in the bank up to $2,500 then and $100,000 now.