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Also known as the Wicks Act. Legislation passed in New York in an effort to provide relief during the Hoover administration.
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Created to channel half a billion dollars in relief money through state and local welfare.
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Designed to provide more effective uses for the banks assets. Also known as the Glass-Steagall Act.
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Insured private lending institutions against loss on home mortgage loans.
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Provided grants for high school and college students in exchange for work in order to help them complete their education.
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Provided assistance to the aged, blind, crippled an dependent children, subjects of industrial accidents, and unemployed.
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It was caused by Roosevelt's premature attempt to balance the budget by cutting relief spending.
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Established minimum wage, 40 hour work week, overtime pay, and curbed use of child labor.
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Resulted in changed attitudes and ideas about the origins of poverty.