Transcript 13.2 The Second New Deal

13.2 THE SECOND NEW
DEAL
OBJECTIVES
• Discuss the programs of social and
economic reform in the Second New
Deal
• Explain how the New Deal legislation
affected the growth of organized
labor
• Describe the impact of Roosevelt’s
court-packing plan on the course of
the New Deal
SECOND NEW DEAL
• Addressed problems of the elderly, the
poor, and the unemployed
• Created new public-works projects,
helped farmers, and protected
workers’ rights
NEW PROGRAMS
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• $5 billion for new jobs
• Built/improved highways, rivers, promoted
soil and H20 conservation
• Caused the federal deficit to grow
• Who was the economist that would be in favor
of this?!
• Pump priming
SOCIAL SECURITY
• Social Security Act (SSA)• Unemployment insurance for people who
lost jobs
• Insurance for victims of work-related
accidents
• Aid for poverty-stricken moms/children,
blind, disabled
MORE AID TO FARMERS
• Rural Electrification Admin. (REA)
• Loaned money to electric utilities to
build power lines to isolated areas
• Success! 1950-more than 80% of
farms had power!
LABOR UNIONS
• New Rights to workers
• Wagner Act: recognized the right of
employees to join labor unions and
created Collective Bargaining
• Fair Labor Standards Act: minimum wage,
max workweek hrs., outlawed child labor
WORKERS USE THEIR RIGHTS!
• Feud within AFL-few workers belonged
and little effort to organize
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
• New union
• Sit-down strike in GM plant
CHALLENGES TO NEW DEAL
• Supreme Court• Said the NIRA was unconstitutional, also part of
AAA
• Court Packing
• FDR wanted to dilute the power of current
Justices
• Called for adding 6 more Justices
• But! Court started passing FDRs laws
• “switch in time to save 9”
ECONOMIC
DOWNTURN=CONSERVATIVE GAINS
• Economy doing better, FDR reduces
spending
• Miscalculated!
• Feds raise interest rates-makes it difficult for
businesses to expand
• Economy in a tailspin!
• 1938-Conservatives make gain in congress
• FDR-not pushing any more reforms
CCC WORKERS IN ALASKA, 1939