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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 ...
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.
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. What is more, most New Deal public works - schools, roads, dams ...
The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution.It abolished the canal commissioners and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and Surveyor who continued to prepare maps, plans and estimates ...
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 .
La Guardia helped plan the Civil Works Administration and Travis Harvard Whitney was appointed by La Guardia's suggestion. [52] [53] 20% of the jobs created by the CWA nationally, 200,000, were in New York City. The CWA, Works Progress Administration, and Public Works Administration spent more than $1.1 billion in New York City from 1934 to ...
Structures built as part of the New Deal-era Public Works Administration in the U.S. state of New York. Pages in category "Public Works Administration in New York (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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