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"New Deal Policy"

HAPPYJUNU 2019. 3. 5. 10:13

Today, I learned about the "New Deal Policy"

The main purposes of New deal policy were 3R: Relief, Recovery, Reform.

There were several programs about the new deal policy. 


Situation 

Program

In Detail 

Related Group 

 25% of people were unemployed.

 Jobs Program

Provide jobs to the unemployed. 

WPA, PWA, CCC 

 50% of old-aged people were lied in poverty

Welfare Program 

Make an unemployment insurance

SSA 

 Farm prices were wildly fluctuated.

Farm Program 

Keep food price stable by buying foods in good harvests and selling them in bad ones 

AAA 

 Private business didn't invest, but speculate

New Financial Regulations

Banks are insured by federal government for the case of bankruptcy 

FDIC 

 Banks did fraud

Glass-Steagall Act(1933) 

Split banks into investment banks and commercial banks 

 

 Government needed money for programs

Deficit spending  

Issued government bonds 

 

 Working condition was bad

Fair Labor Standards Act(1938) 

8 hour day, 40 hour week, time and a half overtime pay, prohibit employment of minors, federal minimum wage 

 


After these programs, Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected. 

But, he stopped deficit spending, and relied on private business hire. 

Then, U.S. was in 2nd depression. (1939) 

Unemployment rate was 17%.