apr 23, 1933 - WPA, AAA, CCC, NRA created
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|WPA = Works Progress Administration|
employed millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and road | AAA = Agricultural Adjustment Act | designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land | CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps | public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28 | NRA = National Recovery Administration | Aimed to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
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