Section 4

Effects of the Depression

        -New Deal programs did NOT end Great Depression

                -Took WWII to do that

        -Larger role for government

                -Govt now a huge bureaucracy

        -New Deal Programs today

                -Social Security

                -National Labor Relations Board (oversees unions)

                -Subsidies to farmers

                -FDIC

-Securities and Exchange Commission (regulates trading practices)

-Public works projects

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