1. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1928-1941)
Lesson 4 The New Deal Expands

2. Expanding New Deal Programs
2nd New Deal
Addresses problems of the elderly, poor, unemployed, farmers & workers’ rights
Reform – “the 3rd R”
New Jobs
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Built highways
Funded artists to make art
John Maynard Keynes
Economist who favored deficit spending
Government spending money
Help to end depression
Pump priming – put money into hands of consumers to spend money and stimulate economy

3. Helping Workers Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Helping urban workers was critical to the success of the Second Hundred Days
America’s Infrastructure
Roads, Bridges, public buildings
Between , the WPA spent $11 billion to give jobs to 8 million workers
Gave people dignity
Jobs, not handouts
The National Youth Administration (NYA)
provide education, jobs and recreation for young people
Young people worked part-time jobs for their schools

4. THE SECOND NEW DEAL Second New Deal / 2nd 100 days Helping Farmers
More extensive relief for farmers & workers
Helping Farmers
Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act
Paid farmers for cutting production of soil-depleting crops
Farm Securities Administration (FSA)
Helped tenant farmers become landowners
Helped immigrant farmers

5. Aid for Workers Social Security Act
Pension system for elderly
Unemployment insurance
Workers compensation (accidents, disabled)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Money loaned to power companies to bring power to farmers

6. IMPROVING LABOR RELATIONS
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
Protected workers
Collective bargaining
Right to unionize
National Labor Relations Board
Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Maximum hours a week (40)
Minimum wage (25 Cents/ Hour – 45 Cents/Hr)
Banned hazardous work for 18 year olds
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Represent lower paid, ethnically diverse workers
Sit-Down Strike – GM, Flint Michigan

7. Labor Unions Thrive
Analyze Data In general, how has the relationship between the minimum wage and the real minimum wage changed over the past 40 years? Using the graph, how can you explain this change?

9. Opposition to New Deal Supreme Court & New Deal
Schechter Poultry v. US
National Industrial Recovery Act
Declared Unconstitutional – legislative power to president
US V. Butler
AAA unconstitutional
Regulate agricultural production – reserved power to the state
1937 Recession
Unemployment rose to 20%
Democrats lose seats in Congress
1938 Midterm election

10. Analyze Graphs How did Roosevelt’s cutback on federal spending in 1937 affect the unemployment rate?