enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. New Deal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

    The New Deal was a series of domestic programs, public work projects, and financial reforms and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938, with the aim of addressing the Great Depression, which began in 1929.

  3. Alphabet agencies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_agencies

    The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933.

  4. The Living New Deal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_New_Deal

    The New Deal was a constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift America out of the Great Depression, and it touched every state, county, and city, as well as thousands of small towns and reached deep into rural areas with its conservation works.

  5. Public Works Administration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration

    The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression .

  6. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

    The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.

  7. New Deal coalition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_coalition

    The New Deal coalition was an American political coalition that supported the Democratic Party beginning in 1932. The coalition is named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and the follow-up Democratic presidents. It was composed of voting blocs who supported them.

  8. Public Works of Art Project - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_of_Art_Project

    Photograph of the regional directors and Washington, D.C., administrative staff of the Public Works of Art Project (1934) Regional map, Public Works of Art Project The vision and advocacy of artists George Biddle and Edward Bruce are credited for the creation and management of the New Deal art programs of the United States Department of the Treasury.

  9. Civil Works Administration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Works_Administration

    Civil Works Administration workers cleaning and painting the gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol (1934).. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.