Alphabet Agencies
Used to improve how people lived, sustainability, providing jobs
· TVA –Tennessee valley authority – Diking of Mississippi River (very Keynesian)
· FCA – Farm credit association – stabilize agricultural prices
· NRA – National Recovery Administration – Stabilize prices and improve labor conditions
· CCC – Civil Conservation Corps
· AAA – Agricultural Adjustment
· TVA –Tennessee valley authority – Diking of Mississippi River (very Keynesian)
· FCA – Farm credit association – stabilize agricultural prices
· NRA – National Recovery Administration – Stabilize prices and improve labor conditions
· CCC – Civil Conservation Corps
· AAA – Agricultural Adjustment
"My PWA will give work to the unemployed by creating things of lasting use to the nation"
-Harold Ickes
-Harold Ickes
FUN FACT: Busnisses would display the blue eagle to show that they had joined the national discovery agency.
Subjunctive Question
Would it have been better if the money spent on these programs had been used in another way?
Summary: The alphabet agencies were a series of programs introduced in the New Deal by FDR to help lower the unemployment rate and to bring America out of the depression.