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=//Rural Electrification Act 1936//=



Before the Rural Electrification Act (REA)
 * 10% of rural Americans had electricity
 * Unhealthy living conditions
 * Poor santitation inadequite heaters
 * Little place to store food

How the REA got passed
 * Privately owned utlilty companies were not interested in supplying electricity to rural areas
 * Farmers took charge and created non-profit cooperatives to implement electricity
 * Lacked techincal and financial experitse
 * Federal Government took over and made low-cost loans to a non-profit group of farmers to bring electricity to rural ares for the first time

After the REA was passed
 * Passed by FDR on May 20th, 1936
 * Part of FDR's new deal
 * Changed the way cooperatives worked
 * Government aided farmers by granting their cooperatives low-cost loans and could aquire necessary generation and distribution for electrical power

By Sarah Montini and Abby Rickles