Rebuilding+the+Economy

1 Get the Economy back on track: ==== President Obama signed legislation to jumpstart our economy, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, less than a month after his inauguration. The plan will save or create 3.5 million new jobs, make critical investments in our infrastructure and give 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut. ==== provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934.
 * Civil Work Administration

Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs, but more importantly provided work in arts, theater, and literary projects. Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects.
 * Works Progress Administration
 * Public works Administration

2. Fight the housing and financial crises: ====A new housing program has stabilized the market, preventing more foreclosures and helping millions more re-finance at historically low mortgage rates. The Administration is also moving forward with its plans to get credit flowing again to businesses and families, and to reform our regulatory system so we have a set of 21st century rules to match 21st century financial markets==== Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures.
 * Glass-Steagall Act

Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.
 * Wagner Act

Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
 * National Industrial Recovery Act

3. Rebuild our economy on a new, sustainable foundation media type="file" key="business&economy podcast.ang.m4a" width="300" height="50" Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students. Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. First public competition with private power industries. Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.
 * National Youth Administration
 * Tennessee Valley Authority
 * Agricultural Adjustment Act

these three programs support the same things. they all talk about the feature of american families and how things would be.