Title: New Deal - Academic Kids
Headings: New Deal
New Deal
From Academic Kids
Relief, recovery, and reform
The Origins of the New Deal
The First Hundred Days
The "Bank Holiday" and the Emergency Banking Act
The Economy Act
The Farm Programs
Other initiatives
Reform: (NIRA)
Business, labor, and government cooperation
The NRA "Blue Eagle" campaign
Second New Deal
Legislative successes and failures
Defeat: Court Packing and Executive Reorganization
Attacks Right and Left
The New Deal and the "broker state"
Government Role: balance labor, business and farming
African Americans
The recession of 1937 and recovery
World War II and the end of the Great Depression
Conflicting interpretation of the New Deal economic policies
Depression Statistics
Relief Statistics
Families on Relief 1936-41 <ref>Donald S. Howard, WPA and Federal Relief Policy. 1943 p 34.</ref>
Spending to Recovery?
Fiscal Conservatism
New Deal and statism
New Deal arts and culture
The legacies of the New Deal
"New Deal" as Political Metaphor
Notable New Deal programs
See also
Notes
References
Secondary sources
Primary sources
External links

Content: Much of the New Deal's efforts to help corporate America were channeled through a Hoover program, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Reform was based on the assumption that the depression was caused by the inherent instability of the market and that government intervention was necessary to rationalize and stabilize the economy, and to balance the interests of farmers, business and labor. It included the National Recovery Administration (1933), regulation of Wall Street ( SEC, 1933), the Agricultural Adjustment Act farm programs (1933 and later), insurance of bank deposits ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1933) and the Wagner Act encouraging labor unions (1935). Despite urgings by some New Dealers, there was no major anti-trust program. Roosevelt said that he opposed socialism (in the sense of state ownership of factories), and only one major program, the Tennessee Valley Authority (1933), involved government ownership of the means of production. Milton Friedman is typical of a majority of economists who have criticized the NRA and AAA for setting prices and wages, which distorted the market.<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, Two Lucky People (1998) p. 59.</ref> Sixty years later Friedman continued to attack the NRA and the labor unions, saying, "Roosevelt's policies were very destructive. Roosevelt's policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been. What pulled us out of the depression was the natural resilience of the economy and WW2." <ref>Friedman, Milton. Interview with John Hawkins.