The Second New Deal

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its the second new deal
Karolina Flores
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The Second New Deal
  1. Criticism:
    1. Right Wing: had long believed that the new deal regulated business too tightly
      1. Deficit Spending: goverment practice of spending borrowed monet rather than raising taxes, usually in an attempt to boost the economy
      2. Left Wing: believed that the new deal had not gone far enough
        1. Huey Long: he planned to run president in 1936
          1. Father Charles Coughlin:he organized the National Union for Social Justice
            1. Francis Townsend: he proposed that the federal goverment pay citizens over age 60 a pension of $200 a month
        2. Works Progress Administration: employed 8.5 million workers and spent $11 billion to construct about 650,000 miles of roadways, 125,000 public buildings, 853 airports, more than 124,000 bridges and more than 8,000n parks
          1. Federal Number One:financed artists, musicians, theather people, and writers
        3. Workers and seniors:
          1. Wagner Act of 1935: guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively
            1. NLRB:organized factory elections by secret ballot to determine whether workers wanted a union.
              1. Blinding arbitration: whereby dissatisfied union members took their complains to a neutral party who would listen to both sides and decide on the issue
                1. Sit-Down Strike: prevented managment from sending in replacement workers.
                2. Social Security Act: provided small incomes to millions of Americans who were unable to work through no fault of their own.
                  1. Entitlement Program is not simply a form of welfare or relief
                  2. Keynesianism: which held that goverment should spend heavily in a recession to jump-start the economy
                    1. Fair Labor Standards Act: which abolished child labor, limited the workweek to 44 hours for most workers, and set the first federal minium wage at 25 cents an hour.
                      1. Broker State: in which the goverment works out conflicts among different interests.
                        1. Safety net;safeguards and reliefs programs that protected people against economic disaster
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