Summary: The Farm Security Administration

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Michael: The Farm Security Administration was created in 1937 under the Department of Agriculture. It was initially created as the Resettlement Administration in 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States The organization was used during the Depression to fight American rural poverty. Ryan: The FSA helped with rural rehabilitation, farm loans, and subsistence homestead programs to improve the lifestyle of very poor landowning farmers, sharecroppers, and tenants. The FSA was not a relief agency. The states and county offices worked together to determine which clients needed loans that could not get the credit somewhere else. The farmers used the loans they received to buy land, livestock, equipment, and seeds. Michael: Before the

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