Early Federal Policy Responses

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 12 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 173-195 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we discuss the lack of an effective response to farmers’ travails by the Hoover administration, contrasted with the whirlwind of legislative activity that addressed the agricultural sector in the “first Hundred Days” of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in March of 1933. These actions included the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which is now viewed as the first in a long series of farm bills providing a financial safety net for US farmers, as well as the Soil Conservation Act, the Rural Electrification Act, and legislation establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps. A key court case, United States v. Butler, forced President Roosevelt to alter his legislative course in 1935.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_12

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