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The Civilian Conservation (CCC) put unemployed men to work on numerous projects - building roads, bridges, dams, state parks, planting trees, and various forestry and recreational programs for the Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, and Soil Conservation Service.
The Civilian Works Administration (CWA) supplied over $3 billion for various work and transient projects, created temporary jobs for over 20 million. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) then replaced it.
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) established the National Recovery Administration (NRA) as an initiative to revive economic growth, encourage collective bargaining, set maximum work hours, minimum wages, at time prices, and prohibit child labor in industry.
The Public Works Administration (PWA) initiated projects to provide jobs, increase purchasing power, improve public welfare, and help revive economic growth by putting people back to work - on projects, including electricity-generating dams, airports, schools, hospitals, affordable housing, and more.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) became the largest New Deal agency, employing millions in every state, especially in rural and western areas. Its programs found jobs for about 60% of the nation's unemployed on projects like construction and various types of development, but also in areas of education, the arts, health, and other community initiatives for professional and white collar workers, plus other efforts to feed children and redistribute food, clothing and provide housing.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, economic development, and agricultural promotion in most of Tennessee as well as parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. It was Washington's largest regional planning agency and remains so today. It built 16 dams and a steam plant, produced electricity cheaply, and through the Electric Home and Farm Authority (EHFA) helped farmers buy major electric appliances with low-cost financing.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) restricted production by paying farmers to reduce and/or destroy crops and kill livestock to decrease supply and raise prices, inappropriately at the wrong time when millions were impoverished and hungry. It ran counter to vitally needed policy to produce low-cost food, make it affordable for millions, and relieve hunger. It also subsidized owners, not tenant farmers or sharecroppers badly needing help.
The Farm Credit Act helped farmers refinance mortgages over an extended time at below-market rates. By so doing, it helped them stay solvent. It also created the Farm Credit Administration to make loans for the production and marketing of agricultural products as well as regulate and examine banks, associations, and related Farm Credit System entities. It was a network of borrower-owned financial institutions to provide credit to farmers, ranchers, other agricultural interests, and rural utility cooperatives.
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