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Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects. Building roads, planting trees, and other work
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Government builds series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricty. First public competition with private power industries. Built damns up all kimds of rivers.
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Protected small farmers from price drops by providing money to grow less to raise the price of crops again. Also started educational programs to teach methds of preventing another dust bowl from happening.
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Provided work in federal job positions. Provided 4 million jobs right away. Many people belived that the work they did was a waste of the governments money.
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Insured home loans for building and rapairing homes. Gave peace of mind to new home owners.
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Regulated stock market and restricted buying stocks on credit to prevent another collaspe of the economy.
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Provided pensions, unemployment, diability pay, and money to help with the raising of children.
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Created a board to control nations money with all the new acts that would cost the nation a lot of money.
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Provided loans for chaper and lower intrest home owning.
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Established the first minimum wage and max 40 hours per week. Set rules for employment of the younger generation and set that anyone who works over 40 hours must get time and a half.
