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New Deal Agencies and Programs Alphabet Soup Part 2
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FDIC,  | was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices. |
| SEC | is a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception. |
| SSA | is a U.S. government agency created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the SSA administers the social insurance programs in the United States. The agency covers a wide range of social security services, such as disability, retirement and survivors' benefits. |
| FHA | is a United States government agency created in part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It sets standards for construction, underwriting, and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. |
CCC,  | was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal, that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. |
NRA,  | was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. |
FCC,  | was created to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself. |
FLSA,  | introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed time-and-a-half for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute. |
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