Social Security Act: An act passed by Congress as part of the Second New Deal that provided pensions for retirees, unemployment insurance, and aid for certain groups including disabled people and single mothers.
Works Progress Administration (WPA): One major element of FDR’s New Deal aiming to provide jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression. It funded public works projects like roads, bridges, schools, and more.
The Dust Bowl: A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.