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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Under Hoover, a federal agency which loaned money to big business in an effort to stimulate the depressed economy and save them from bankruptcy. Trickle down effect.
Huey Long
Louisiana Senator Long, critic of the New Deal. Said it did too little to help the poor. Advocated a program to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor. Assassinated in 1935.
Civil Works Admninistration (CWA)
During the winter of 1933-34, this government agency under Harry Hopkins created 4 million relief jobs for the unemployed.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Popular New Deal…