The Second New Deal

1. The "Big Bill"
   • Works Progress Administration
   • Rural Electrification Administration
   • Resettlement Administration

The Second New Deal

1. The "Big Bill"
   • Works Progress Administration
   • Rural Electrification Administration
   • Resettlement Administration
2. Social Security Administration

The Second New Deal

1. The "Big Bill"
   • Works Progress Administration
   • Rural Electrification Administration
   • Resettlement Administration
2. Social Security Administration

• Senior pensions
• Unemployment insurance
• Support for families without fathers

Roosevelt on the Social Security taxes:

I guess you're right on the economics, but those taxes were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program.

Excluded from social security:

• Farm laborers
• Domestic servants
• Workers in establishments with fewer than 10 employees.

Second New Deal: Major initiatives

1. Big Bill
2. Social Security
3. Wagner Act
   • National Labor Relations board, mediating disputes between unions and corporations.
   • Right to form a union.
   • Procedures for Union Elections.
4. Tax Reform

Bringing Up Baby (1938)