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Federal relief enacted by the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was distributed mainly to plantation owners. The AAA was a New Deal program that was supposed to reduce food production and increase food prices; this was intended to improve the agricultural economy. Once again, Mitchell, East, and liberal members of the Agricultural Adjustment ...
The Unemployment and Farm Relief Act (French: Loi remédiant au chômage et aidant à l’agriculture) was introduced by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett, [2] and enacted in July 1931 by the Parliament of Canada, enabling public works projects to be set up in Canada's national parks during the Great Depression.
He fought for relief legislation, including unemployment insurance and a shorter work week and declared that every laborer had a "right to work which must not be taken away." [29] He strengthened union efforts on the ground and traveled across Illinois to give support to strikes and organizing efforts. [30]
Some 76,000 Illinois residents received $123 million in excess regular unemployment benefits since the pandemic hit, and they may be able to keep the money — as long as they haven’t already ...
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Attached as Title III to the Act, the Thomas Amendment became the 'third horse' in the New Deal's farm relief bill. Drafted by Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, the amendment blended populist easy-money views with the theories of the New Economics. Thomas wanted a stabilized "honest dollar," one that would be fair to debtor and creditor alike. [22]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has distributed over $2.1 billion to more than 39,000 farmers in economic distress through a loan relief program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, the ...
Roosevelt transferred the Federal Emergency Relief Administration land program to the Resettlement Administration under Executive Order 7028 on May 1, 1935. [3] However, Tugwell's goal of moving 650,000 people from 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2) of agriculturally exhausted, worn-out land was unpopular among the majority in Congress. [4]