Title: New Deal - Programs, Social Security & FDR - HISTORY
Headings: New Deal
New Deal
Contents
New Deal for the American People
“First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
The First Hundred Days
Second New Deal
The End of the New Deal?
The New Deal and American Politics
PHOTO GALLERIES
New Deal Programs
Farm Security Administration’s Resettlement Administration Photographs

Content: In April, he created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people. WPA projects weren’t allowed to compete with private industry, so they focused on building things like post offices, bridges, schools, highways and parks. The WPA also gave work to artists, writers, theater directors and musicians. In July 1935, the National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, created the National Labor Relations Board to supervise union elections and prevent businesses from treating their workers unfairly. In August, FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935, which guaranteed pensions to millions of Americans, set up a system of unemployment insurance and stipulated that the federal government would help care for dependent children and the disabled. In 1936, while campaigning for a second term, FDR told a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden that “The forces of ‘organized money’ are unanimous in their hate for me – and I welcome their hatred.” He went on: “ I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match, [and] I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces have met their master.” This FDR had come a long way from his earlier repudiation of class-based politics and was promising a much more aggressive fight against the people who were profiting from the Depression-era troubles of ordinary Americans. He won the election by a landslide.