FDR’s Alphabet SoupSoup That Will Cure the Great Depression

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This soup cures…◦By providing jobs for young men ages 18-25 to work on projects to benefit the public such as planting trees, building levees for flood control, building hiking trails, and improving state and national parks.

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This soup cures…◦By providing money ($$$) to the states for use in helping people in dire need.

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This soup cures…◦By limiting the farm production of crops. Its job was to quickly raise farm product prices and to control production so that agriculture prices would stay up over the long term.

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This soup cures…◦By providing assistance to control flooding, promote conservation and development, while bringing electricity to rural areas along the Tennessee River.

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This soup cures…◦By helping to boost the economy while helping businesses regulate themselves.

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This soup cures…◦By encouraging businesses to set a minimum wage and abolish child labor. It also sets up codes to govern pricing and labor conditions while establishing protocols for industry.

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This soup cures…◦By stimulating the economy through the building of dams, roads, highways, levees, and other huge public works projects that needed large numbers of workers.

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This soup cures…◦By helping to provide insurance to banking depositories.

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This soup cures…◦By helping to regulate the sales of stocks and bonds while establishing and punishing the dishonest stockbrokers and speculators who helped start the Crash of ‘29.

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This soup cures…◦By provided funds for part-time jobs that students would have to assist in their college tuition and college costs.

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This soup cures…◦By creating a metaphorical safety net for the elderly and disabled persons of America. When people work each worker and boss puts money ($$$) into the fund and when they retire or if they are injured, they can claim their pension.

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This soup cures…◦By creating a fund to subsidize and commission the arts for state and national products. Artists, writers, symphonies, etc. will be commissioned to create or perform public services like write and record local histories, create murals to commemorate historical events, and perform at state and national functions.