<Li> Social Security Act (SSA), 1935: provided financial assistance to: elderly, handicapped, paid for by employee and employer payroll contributions; required 7 years contributions, so first payouts were in 1942; still exists . </Li> <Li> Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935: a national labor program for more than 2 million unemployed; created useful construction work for unskilled men; also sewing projects for women and arts projects for unemployed artists, musicians and writers; ended 1943 . </Li> <Li> National Labor Relations Act (NLRA); Wagner Act, 1935: set up National Labor Relations Board to supervise labor - management relations; In the 1930s, it strongly favored labor unions . Modified by the Taft - Hartley Act (1947); still exists . </Li> <Li> Judicial Reorganization Bill, 1937: gave the President power to appoint a new Supreme Court judge for every judge 70 years or older; failed to pass Congress . </Li>

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