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The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the US bungled its national priorities from the New Deal to the present (2001). Jim Powell. FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2007). Crown. Jim Powell. How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People (2003). CATO. Burt Solomon.
The Age of Roosevelt, 3 vols, (1957–1960), the classic pro-New Deal history, with details on critics. Online at vol 2 vol 3; Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (1987) biography; Brandon Streaker. The Man and the Deal (1964) White, Graham J. FDR and the Press. 1979; Winfield, Betty Houchin. FDR and the News ...
During the 1930s, the New Deal was often subjected to scrutiny, and had many constitutional challenges. Roosevelt was wary of the U.S. Supreme Court early in his first term, and his administration was slow to bring constitutional challenges of New Deal legislation before the Court; [1] however, early wins for New Deal supporters came at the start of 1934 in Home Building & Loan Association v.
One of these, the New York state program TERA (Temporary Emergency Relief Administration), was set up in 1931 and headed by Harry Hopkins, a close adviser to then-Governor Roosevelt. A few years later, as president, Roosevelt asked Congress to set up FERA—which gave grants to the states for the same purpose—in May 1933, and appointed ...
The first bill proposed a new progressive tax code designed to cap personal fortunes at $100 million ($2.372 billion in 2024 dollars). Fortunes above $1 million ($23.72 million in 2024) would be taxed at 1%; fortunes above $2 million ($47.45 million in 2024) would be taxed at 2%, and so forth, up to a 100% tax on fortunes greater than $100 million.
The Second New Deal is a term used by historians [1] to characterize the second stage, 1935–36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.The most famous laws included the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the Banking Act, the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the Social Security Act, and the Wealth Tax Act.
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 27, 1934 The National Housing Act of 1934, H.R. 9620, Pub. L. 73–479 , 48 Stat. 1246 , enacted June 27, 1934 , also called the Better Housing Program , [ 1 ] was part of the New Deal passed during the Great Depression in order to make housing and home mortgages more affordable. [ 2 ]
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 ...