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The Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.It was a large public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, the Resettlement Administration, the Rural Electrification Administration, and other assistance programs. [1]
A New Deal for Youth: The Story of the National Youth Administration; Lyon, Bruce Wayne. "The federal government and college students during the great depression: a study of the college student aid programs of the federal emergency relief administration and the national youth administration." Diss. The Ohio State University, 1969. Meriam, Lewis.
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 First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $11.8 billion in 2023) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]
Welfare, Democracy and the New Deal. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33379-5. Charles, Searle F. Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression (1963) Hopkins, June. "The road not taken: Harry Hopkins and New Deal Work Relief." Presidential Studies Quarterly 29, 2 (306–316). Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Federal Relief Policy ...
The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced it will forgive student loans for more than 1,800 borrowers who attended a trio of for-profit colleges that made false recruiting claims and left ...
Relief for the unemployed was a major priority for the New Deal, and Roosevelt copied the programs he had initiated as governor of New York as well as the programs Hoover had started. [24] The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the largest program from 1933 to 1935, involved giving money to localities to operate work relief ...
The second program, focused on people facing financial hardships, seeks to provide student debt relief for millions more. The two programs were submitted for review to the Office of Management and ...