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Yet the AAA did help farmers. By early 1936 their net income had risen by more than $3 billion, while the government had spent $1.5 billion on the program. In 1936 the Supreme Court declared the AAA unconstitutional, but to meet the Court's objections Congress rewrote the act as the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Farmers continued to receive payments from the government for not producing various crops and livestock. Through agencies such as these, as well as federal projects that brought electricity to the countryside and federal programs to resettle those laboring on poor soil, the government greatly improved life for American farmers.
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