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The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $11.8 billion in 2023) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]
Passed the House on May 23, 1933 (262-19) Passed the Senate with amendment on May 25, 1933 (voice vote) Reported by the joint conference committee on June 12, 1933; agreed to by the Senate on June 13, 1933 (voice vote) and by the House on June 13, 1933 (191-6) Signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on June 16, 1933
The "Second New Deal" is the designation historians use for the dramatic domestic policies passed during the last two years of Roosevelt's first term. Unlike his efforts in the first two years to be inclusive of all established interest groups, Roosevelt moved left and focused on helping labor unions, poor farmers, and the unemployed.
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933.
The Living New Deal is a California non-profit corporation based in the San Francisco Bay Area and affiliated with the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. The Living New Deal is directed by UCB Professor Emeritus Richard Walker. [16] Its founder and project scholar is Gray Brechin. [17]
Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president and declared it is time to set aside petty differences and embark on a new era of responsibility to repair the country and its image abroad ...
The Second New Deal (1935–36) was the second stage of the New Deal programs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his main goals in January 1935: improved use of national resources, security against old age, unemployment and illness, and slum clearance , as well as a national welfare program (the WPA) to replace state relief efforts.
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