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Workers' education, a form of adult education, emphasized the study of economic and social problems from the workers' perspective. When the FERA created its adult education program in 1933, workers' education classes were included. Between 1933 and 1943, 36 experiment programs in workers' education were launched, 17 of them lasting over ten years.
The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA, Pub. L. 111–21 (text), S. 386, 123 Stat. 1617, enacted May 20, 2009, is a public law in the United States enacted in 2009. The law enhanced criminal enforcement of federal fraud laws, especially regarding financial institutions , mortgage fraud , and securities fraud or commodities fraud.
Introduced in the House as "Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989" H.R. 1278 by Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) on March 6, 1989; Committee consideration by House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House Government Operations, House Judiciary, House Rules, House Ways and Means
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933. In total, at least 69 offices ...
Created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in order to create state and local jobs. Created the Civilian Conservation Corps to put people to work on natural resource projects. Passed the Wagner Act allowing workers to collectively bargain A.K.A. form unions.
Roosevelt transferred the Federal Emergency Relief Administration land program to the Resettlement Administration under Executive Order 7028 on May 1, 1935. [3] However, Tugwell's goal of moving 650,000 people from 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2) of agriculturally exhausted, worn-out land was unpopular among the majority in Congress. [4]
Federal Emergency Relief Administration camp for unemployed women in Maine (1934) The She-She-She Camps were camps in the United States for unemployed women. The camps were organized by Eleanor Roosevelt as a female counterpart to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) programs designed for unemployed men. Roosevelt found that the men-only focus ...
Previously the Insurance Program created in 1968 was constructed around the "100-year floodplain" which is the "area that would be inundated by the 100-year flood, better thought of as an area that has a one percent or greater chance of experiencing a flood in any single year", [73] and large subsidies for coastal homes, especially in Florida.