Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Second New Deal
- Criticism:
- Right Wing: had long
believed that the
new deal regulated
business too tightly
- Deficit Spending: goverment practice of spending
borrowed monet rather than raising taxes, usually in
an attempt to boost the economy
- Left Wing: believed
that the new deal had
not gone far enough
- Huey Long: he
planned to run
president in 1936
- Father Charles
Coughlin:he organized
the National Union for
Social Justice
- Francis Townsend: he proposed that the federal
goverment pay citizens over age 60 a pension of
$200 a month
- 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
- Federal Number One:financed artists,
musicians, theather people, and writers
- Workers and seniors:
- Wagner Act of 1935:
guaranteed workers the right
to unionize and bargain
collectively
- NLRB:organized
factory elections by
secret ballot to
determine whether
workers wanted a
union.
- Blinding arbitration:
whereby dissatisfied
union members took
their complains to a
neutral party who
would listen to both
sides and decide on the
issue
- Sit-Down Strike: prevented managment from
sending in replacement workers.
- Social Security Act: provided small
incomes to millions of Americans who
were unable to work through no fault
of their own.
- Entitlement Program is not
simply a form of welfare or
relief
- Keynesianism: which held that
goverment should spend heavily in
a recession to jump-start the
economy
- 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.
- Broker State: in which the goverment works out conflicts among different
interests.
- Safety net;safeguards and reliefs programs that
protected people against economic disaster