USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

Detailed explanation-2: -Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) (1933) Created under the Federal Emergency Relief Act to award grants to states for works programs to hire the unemployed and provide direct relief payments to the indigent. Created by Executive Order to fund state and local public works projects.

Detailed explanation-3: -The WPA employed skilled and unskilled workers in a great variety of work projects-many of which were public works projects such as creating parks, and building roads, bridges, schools, and other public structures.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Public Works Administration (PWA) reduced unemployment by hiring the unemployed to build new public buildings, roads, bridges, and subways. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) employed hundreds of thousands of young men in reforestation and flood-control work.