Title: 7 New Deal Programs Still in Effect Today
Headings: 7 New Deal Programs Still in Effect Today
7 New Deal Programs Still in Effect Today
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
National Labor Relations Board
Securities and Exchange Commission
Social Security
Soil Conservation Service
Tennessee Valley Authority
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Content: On August 14, 1935, FDR signed the Social Security Act, creating what has been described as the most effective poverty mitigation program in U.S. history. With the passage of the Social Security Act, the U.S. government established an agency to register citizens for benefits, to collect taxes on both employers and employees to fund the benefits, and to distribute those funds to beneficiaries. Social Security helped not only the elderly, but also the blind, the unemployed, and dependent children. Social Security provides benefits to over 63 million Americans today, including over 46 million senior citizens. 8 ﻿ Although some factions in Congress have attempted to privatize or dismantle Social Security in recent years, it remains one of the most popular and effective New Deal programs. 06
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Soil Conservation Service
South of Lamar, Colorado, a large dust cloud appears behind a truck traveling on highway 59, May 1936. PhotoQuest / Getty Images
The U.S. was already in the grip of the Great Depression when things took a turn for the worse. A persistent drought that started in 1932 wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. A massive dust storm, dubbed the Dust Bowl, carried the region's soil away with the wind in the mid-1930s. The problem was literally carried to the steps of Congress, as soil particles coated Washington, D.C., in 1934.