Older readers have, no doubt, heard first-hand stories about the Great Depression which gripped America in the early 1930s. Families, both rural and urban, struggled during the times of economic ...

The Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act both included significant tax provisions, but neither changed the basic structure of the federal revenue system. Indeed ...

That original bill, known as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, was passed in 1933 during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. Its purpose was to establish a baseline of policies to support farm ...

Every five years Congress passes legislation that sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry. The first real farm bill was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part ...

His first-term achievements, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, sought to organize the economy into a system of legal cartels while, absurdly enough ...