Fera- federal emergency relief administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Program was one of President Roosevelt's New Deal Programs. In this program state assistance was provided for families of the unemployed. This relief program was expensive, but it provided jobs for over 20 million people. It created jobs that helped improve the United States towns. Jobs like, street construction, building bridges, laying sewer pipes, school constructing and public repair, land clearing and landscaping, cutting wood, landslide prevention, flood control and waterway improvements, and established FERA offices and stores.
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/index.html
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/index.html
Ccc- Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) brought together the nation's young men and the land in an effort to save them both. Roosevelt proposed to recruit thousands of unemployed young men, enlist them in a peacetime army, and send them to battle the erosion and destruction of the nation's natural resources. The CCC, also known as Roosevelt's Tree Army, was credited with renewing the nation's decimated forests by planting an estimated three billion trees from 1933 to 1942.
- http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1586.html
- http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1586.html
PWA- Public Works Administration
The Public Works Administration (PWA) budgeted several billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works as a means of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of American industry. Simply put, it was designed to spend "big bucks on big projects." The PWA spent over $6 billion, but did not succeed in returning the level of industrial activity to pre-depression levels.
- http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/pwa.cfm
- http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/pwa.cfm
cwa- civil works administration
A New Deal agency established in the late fall of 1933, the Civil Works Administration sought to provide emergency work relief for the many still unemployed as the country faced another winter during the Great Depression. Paying higher wages than the meager subsistence rates previously prevailing in local work relief, the CWA quickly put some 80,000 West Virginians to work on projects ranging from road work and the building of 35,400 fly-proof sanitary privies to making mattresses. Although the subject of intense political conflict, the agency provided much-needed relief to West Virginians before President Franklin D. Roosevelt, alarmed at the cost, ordered it to cease operations in the spring of 1934.
- http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1194
- http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1194