Civil Works Administration

<p>The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived <a href="/facts/Job_creation_program/qGzDQbWt">job creation program</a> established by the <a href="/facts/New_Deal/R33TXQFB">New Deal</a> during the <a href="/facts/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States/WhukPD96">Great Depression in the United States</a> in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34. President <a href="/facts/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt/HtG9vMQv">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> unveiled the CWA on November 8, 1933, and put <a href="/facts/Harry_L._Hopkins/4AkQ3Yth">Harry L. Hopkins</a> in charge of the short-term agency.
</p><p>The CWA was a project created under the <a href="/facts/Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administration/LWR58gdk">Federal Emergency Relief Administration</a> (FERA). The CWA created construction jobs, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges. It ended on March 31, 1934, after spending $200 million a month and giving jobs to four million people.
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Civil Works Administration