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Alphabet Agencies Alphabet agencies were agencies created as a section of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal . During the first 100 days of Roosevelt’s time in office in 1933, the agencies set up were to combat the Great Depression. More were created throughout the 1930s and 1940s as well. There have been at least 100 offices counted during these years. Some agencies were created by Congress while others lay under Roosevelt’s direct orders, or belonged to the Works Progress Administration. Altogether these agencies were sometime referred to as alphabet soup. Some of them still exist today, have merged into other sectors, or been abolished.


 * ~ Initialism ||~ Year ||~ Agency ||
 * AAA || 1933 || Agricultural Adjustment Act ||
 * CAA || 1933 || Civil Aeronautics Authority (now Federal Aviation Administration) ||
 * CCC || 1933 || Civilian Conservation Corps ||
 * CCC || 1933 || Commodity Credit Corporation ||
 * CWA || 1933 || Civil Works Administration ||
 * DRS || 1935 || Drought Relief Service ||
 * DSH || 1933 || Subsistence Homesteads Division ||
 * EBA || 1933 || Emergency Banking Act ||
 * FAP || 1935 || Federal Art Project (part of WPA) ||
 * FCA || 1933 || Farm Credit Administration ||
 * FCC || 1934 || Federal Communications Commission ||
 * FDIC || 1933 || Federal Deposit Insurance Administration ||
 * FERA || 1933 || Federal Emergency Relief Administration ||
 * FHA || 1934 || Federal housing Administration ||
 * FLSA || 1938 || Fair Labor Standards Act ||
 * FMP || 1935 || Federal Music Project (part of WPA) ||
 * FSA || 1935 || Farm Security Administration ||
 * FSRC || 1933 || Federal Surplus Relief Corporation ||
 * FTP || 1935 || Federal Theatre Project (part of WPA) ||
 * FWA || 1939 || Federal Works Agency ||
 * FWP || 1935 || Federal Writers' Project (part of WPA) ||
 * HOLC || 1933 || Home Owners Load Corporation ||
 * NIRA || 1933 || National Industry Recovery Act ||
 * NLRA || 1935 || National Labor Relations Act ||
 * NLRB || 1934 || National Labor Relations Board/ The Wagner Act ||
 * NRA || 1933 || National Recover Administration ||
 * PRRA || 1933 || Puerto Rice Reconstruction Administration ||
 * PWA || 1933 || Public Works Administration ||
 * RA || 1935 || Resettlement Administration ||
 * REA || 1935 || Rural Electrification Administration (now Rural Utilities Service) ||
 * SEC || 1934 || Securities and Exchange Commission ||
 * SSA || 1935 || Social Security Administration ||
 * SSB || 1935 || Social Security Board (now Social Security Administration) ||
 * TVA || 1933 || Tennessee Valley Authority ||
 * USHA || 1937 || United States Housing Authority ||
 * USMC || 1936 || United States Maritime Commission ||
 * WPA || 1935 || Works Progress Administration ||
 * HOLC || 1933 || Home Owner __#|Loans__ Corporation ||
 * FHA || 1934 || Federal Housing Administration ||
 * WPA || 1935 || Works Progress Administration ||

Agricultural Adjustment Act

The AAA was created to help poor farmers. They were instructed under this federal law not to plant on all of their land, but leave a portion left untouched, as well as kill off excess livestock. They were paid subsidies for following this law. The reason behind this was to raise the value of crops with fewer surpluses. Subsidies were generated through taxing solely companies who processed farm goods. This was considered the first farm bill in the U.S.A.

Works Progress Administration

Replacing the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, WPA became the most ambition agency created during Roosevelt’s New Deal. It works to employ millions of the unskilled, __#|unemployed__ workers of the Great Depression. Even though this cost more than direct cash payments, it was more beneficial, psychologically, for the unemployed. Through the creation of need for employers to build and maintain projects, such as public building construction, and the manufacturing of roads, and operating large arts, drama, media, it worked towards the main goal of lowering unemployment. Throughout almost all communities in the United States parks, bridges or schools went up because of this agency. Its’ beginning aims were about $4.9 billion, but totalled around $13.4 billion. At WPA’s peak, it employed about three million men, woman and youth (in a separate division). Between 1935 and 1943 Harry Hopkins, heading Works Progress Administration, provided income in almost eight million jobs. After an amazing eight year run, the WPA was discharged due to the economic boom of World War Two.

Tennessee Valley Authority This agency was created in May 1933 by congress. It was created to provide flood control, economic development, electricity generation, and fertilizer manufacturing in the Tennessee Valley. TVA was solely created for the Tennessee Valley due to the disastrous effects of the Great Depression. This agency was not only set up as a provider, but also to help the area grow and expand to modernize the economy and society with expert help. TVA covered a wide area including; parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. It also includes small pieces of North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The majority state that it covers is Tennessee. This was, and still is the largest regional planning agency in the federal government. It also became the exemplary for American aid to modernize the Third World.

Public Works Administration

As a part of the New Deal, PWA was set up to help aid the effects of the Great Depression. It was set up in June 1933 by the National Industry Recover Act to construct large-scale public work. While building dams, bridges, hospitals and schools across the nation, it helped decrease unemployment, secure purchasing power and help bring about a stronger economy. Public Works Administration aimed to spend $3.3 billion in the first year and $6 billion in total. During 1933 to 1935 and again in 1938 PWA spent the most. In 1943 PWA was shut down. This agency contrasted Works Progress Administration as it supplied jobs for the skilled unemployed worker not the educated.

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