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13.2 The Second New Deal

13.2 The Second New Deal. Objectives. Discuss the programs of social and economic reform in the Second New Deal Explain how the New Deal legislation affected the growth of organized labor Describe the impact of Roosevelt’s court-packing plan on the course of the New Deal. Second New Deal.

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13.2 The Second New Deal

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  1. 13.2 The Second New Deal

  2. Objectives • Discuss the programs of social and economic reform in the Second New Deal • Explain how the New Deal legislation affected the growth of organized labor • Describe the impact of Roosevelt’s court-packing plan on the course of the New Deal

  3. Second New Deal • Addressed problems of the elderly, the poor, and the unemployed • Created new public-works projects, helped farmers, and protected workers’ rights

  4. New Programs • Works Progress Administration (WPA) • $5 billion for new jobs • Built/improved highways, rivers, promoted soil and H20 conservation • Caused the federal deficit to grow • Who was the economist that would be in favor of this?! • Pump priming

  5. Social Security • Social Security Act (SSA)- • Unemployment insurance for people who lost jobs • Insurance for victims of work-related accidents • Aid for poverty-stricken moms/children, blind, disabled

  6. More Aid to Farmers • Rural Electrification Admin. (REA) • Loaned money to electric utilities to build power lines to isolated areas • Success! 1950-more than 80% of farms had power!

  7. Labor Unions • New Rights to workers • Wagner Act: recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and created Collective Bargaining • Fair Labor Standards Act: minimum wage, max workweek hrs., outlawed child labor

  8. Workers Use Their Rights! • Feud within AFL-few workers belonged and little effort to organize • Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) • New union • Sit-down strike in GM plant

  9. Challenges to New Deal • Supreme Court- • Said the NIRA was unconstitutional, also part of AAA • Court Packing • FDR wanted to dilute the power of current Justices • Called for adding 6 more Justices • But! Court started passing FDRs laws • “switch in time to save 9”

  10. Economic Downturn=Conservative Gains • Economy doing better, FDR reduces spending • Miscalculated! • Feds raise interest rates-makes it difficult for businesses to expand • Economy in a tailspin! • 1938-Conservatives make gain in congress • FDR-not pushing any more reforms

  11. CCC Workers in Alaska, 1939

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