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| during the 1930's umemployment and insecurity pushed up... |
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suicide rate/ decreased marrige rate
-pop growth down
-inflation |
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| 1947 taft hartley act did? |
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made unions responsible for the damages that their disputes caused and made union leaders take noncommuntist oath
-slowed growth of organized labor |
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aimed at unionizing southern textiles and steelworkers
-failed due to lingering racist feelings |
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to promote max empolyment
-created a 3-member council of economic advisers (to give pres with advice to help promote max employment) |
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serviceman's readjustment act
(GI bill) |
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| -helped former soldiers go back to school |
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had a 20 year long period of prosperity
-women were a major part of the new work force |
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| 1950's military budget helped |
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| jumpstart aerospace, plastic. and electronics industires |
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| a 15-state area stretching from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California, |
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| The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veterans Administration (VA) |
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| home-loan guarantees, making it more economically attractive to own a home in the suburbs rather than to rent an apartment in the city. |
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| In the decade and a half after 1945 |
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| the birth rate in the United States exploded as the "baby boom" took place. |
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