New Deal Programs
• A.A.A
• T.V.A
• C.C.C
• N.I.R.A – N.R.A.
• Deficit Spending
New Deal Goal #2
Relief for the needy
• Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
• Raise prices by lowering production
• Paid farmers to NOT use all of their land
– Some crops were already growing
• Paid farmers $200 million to plow under 10 million
acres of cotton
• Slaughter 6 million pigs
– This program hurt sharecroppers because
they did not own their own land
AAA cont.
• Succeeded in raising gross income by
50%
• Reduced farm debts by $1 billion
CCC
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Men 18-25 worked on building new roads,
developing parks, planting trees, and
helping with soil erosion and flood control
projects
– Earned $30/month
• $25 was sent directly home
• 3 million workers from 1933-1942
T.V.A
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Plan to transform the Tennessee Valley
– Development of power by using dams
– Needed to help with flood & erosion control
– Develop agriculture in that area as well
NIRA - NRA
• National Industrial Recovery Act
– June 1933
• Provided $$ for states to create jobs for
creating new schools and other public
buildings
• Provided $$ to pay for new teachers
• Built more than ½ million miles of roads
• Created an employment program
NRA
• National Recovery Administration
• Part of the NIRA
• Set prices and standards
• Stopped wage cutting, falling prices, and layoffs
• Gov’t took control of businesses
– Business and labor agreed on a code of fair working
practices
– Allowed for organization of workers
• Blue eagle was the symbol of the NRA
Deficit Spending
• Spending more money than the gov’t
received in revenues
• Did not end the Depression
– Caused more problems in some cases