pening. This part of his program had the same format as the first part. It was divided into the same three categories: recovery; relief; and reform. Although there were never two different specific parts of the New Deal, they are broken up into what Roosevelt did to immediately end human suffering upon taking office ( the short term goals), and what he did to make sure that such a tragedy as the Great Depression never struck America again (the long -term goals). The two best samples of recovery under the New Deal after the first 100 days include the Gold Reserve Act and the Fair Labor Standards. Fair Labor Standards stated that industries involved in interstate commerce were to set up minimum - wage and maximum - hour levels. The intended goal was to eventually get to forty cents an hour and a forty - hour week. Labor by children under sixteen, and if it was dangerous, under eighteen.In the relief section of the long - term portion of the New Deal, FDR created the Works Progress Administration as well as the Civil Works Administration. The purpose of the Works Progress Administration was employment on useful projects. Although the agency ended up spending $11 billion on thousands of public buildings, bridges, and hard - surfaced roads, the money was hardly put to waste. Nearly 9 million people were employed over a period of eight years as a result. The Civil Works Administration, which was a branch of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the winter emergency.Finally, in the reform division of the New Deal, the best examples of reform during the latter 100 days would be between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. The SEC was designed as a watchdog administrative agency in order to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation; the National Labor Relations Act reasserted the rig...
