alphabet agencies provided relief or help opposition to New Deal came from from hunger, unemployment, mortgages businesses who did not support government interference and workers’ FERA built or improved 5,000 buildings rights and from state governments who and 7,000 bridges thought the federal government was infringing on their powers PWA provided employment and provided valuable economic and social AAA policy of destroying crops and infrastructures such as bridges, livestock was unpopular when people were airports, schools, hospitals, etc. short of food and clothing; policy of reducing acreage under cultivation resulted NRA eliminated labour in tenant framers/sharecroppers being evicted from their farms WPA employed 3 million people and or improved 2,500 hospitals, 5,9000 schools, NRA codes not mandatory and therefore 1,000 airports, 13,000 playgrounds were ignored; it did not stabilize prices of manufactures or improve wages and NLRB increased union rights and working conditions through organized bargaining power and established a labour minimum wage RA planned to settle 500, 000 poor farming Social Security Act provided pensions and families but resettled fewer than 5,000 unemployment insurance PWA created only temporary employment WPA provided employment for only one third of the nation’s unemployed Socials Security Act did not set national rates of benefits for the unemployed or unemployable or insurance for workers who lost their jobs because of illness, pensions were not extended to all the elderly opposition to the New Deal included companies, bankers, wealthy, who thought that it was a waste of tax payers money and government should not be involved in the economy and regulating it to this extent 1935 Supreme Court ruled NRA codes on employers and AAA were unconstitutional (illegal) because they took away the states’ power (court reversed its decision in 1937)
alphabet agencies provided relief or help from hunger, unemployment, mortgages FERA built or improved 5,000 buildings and 7,000 bridges PWA provided employment and provided valuable economic and social infrastructures such as bridges, airports, schools, hospitals, etc. NRA eliminated labour WPA employed 3 million people and or improved 2,500 hospitals, 5,9000 schools, 1,000 airports, 13,000 playgrounds NLRB increased union rights and bargaining power and established a minimum wage Social Security Act provided pensions and unemployment insurance opposition to New Deal came from businesses who did not support government interference and workers’ rights and from state governments who thought the federal government was infringing on their powers AAA policy of destroying crops and livestock was unpopular when people were short of food and clothing; policy of reducing acreage under cultivation resulted in tenant framers/sharecroppers being evicted from their farms NRA codes not mandatory and therefore were ignored; it did not stabilize prices of manufactures or improve wages and working conditions through organized labour RA planned to settle 500, 000 poor farming families but resettled fewer than 5,000 PWA created only temporary employment WPA provided employment for only one third of the nation’s unemployed Socials Security Act did not set national rates of benefits for the unemployed or unemployable or insurance for workers who lost their jobs because of illness, pensions were not extended to all the elderly opposition to the New Deal included companies, bankers, wealthy, who thought that it was a waste of tax payers money and government should not be involved in the economy and regulating it to this extent 1935 Supreme Court ruled NRA codes on employers and AAA were unconstitutional (illegal) because they took away the states’ power (court reversed its decision in 1937)
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