The second new deal
- Created by: Jasmin
- Created on: 04-06-13 20:17
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- The 2nd New Deal
- Focused on social welfare
- The Wagner Act 1935
- The Social Security Act
- Old age pensions introduced, Americans over 65 received a gov pension
- Plan for unemployment benefit
- Both employers and employees paid into a fund so the worker received a small amount of unemployment benefit if lost their job
- Set up schemes to help sick and disabled
- The Works Progress Administration 1935 WPA
- Like the PWA but created work for actors, artists, photographers and musicians
- The Resettlement Administration 1935 and Farm Security Administration 1927
- RA helped sharecroppers, tenants or farm workers
- Aimed to move 500,000 families to better land and resettle them in a new house
- FSA replaced RA gave loans to sharecroppers and tenant farmers to buy their own land
- FSA set up labour camps which helped migrant farm workers to live in better conditions
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