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Second New Deal - Coggle Diagram
Second New Deal
Wagner Act
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Federal government established the National Labor Relations Board - 3 independent members to ensure employers and trade unions acted correctly
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Gruffey-Snyder Act 1935 and Guffey-Vinson Act 1937 enabled national coal commission to set minimum wages
Organised members in the textile, coal, steel, car and rubber industries
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Wagner Act excluded agricultural and service workers, public employees and those employed outside interstate commerce - because of opposition in congress
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Many black Americans, Hispanic Americans and women whose employment was concentrated in these areas received very little benefit
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Revenue Act
Act increased taxes on property and introduced an undistributed profits tax to force large companies back into the stock market to raise money for more investment
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Only 10% of US families earned more than $3,200 per year
- most paid state taxes only
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Raised an additional $250m per year - tiny sum compared to huge amounts the federal government spent on New Deal projects
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Social Security Act
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Was funded by equal contributions from employers and workers amd would provide minimal payments to unemployed workers, elderly and dependents of deceased breadwinners
Farm workers, domestic servants and the self-employed
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Jobs
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Theatre Project employed 12,000 performers and production companies
Thousands of hospitals, schools, parks and roads built
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More aid to farmers
Rural Electrification Administration of 1935 gave low interest loans to rural cooperatives to allow them to provide electricity
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Resettlement Administration of 1935 helped relocate 45,000 farming families in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas