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Authorized the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
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The Emergency Banking Act was an attempt to stabilize the banking system. This act authorized the federal government to regulate and control aspects of the banking system, and it also rescued failing banks with loans.
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Helped unemployed, unmarried men. Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
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Was created to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
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Employing millions of job-seekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government
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Guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.
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Established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
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Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion.
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Establishes minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, record keeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
