The National Youth Adminstration was to provide education, jobs, and counseling for young people. IT was for young people ages 16-24. The NYA was set up for young people especially for high school, college, and graduate students. The NYA operated from 1935-1939 as part of the Works Process Adminstration. It served 327,000 high school and college youth, who were paid from $6 to $40 a month. Another 155,000 boys and girls were paid $10 to $25 a month for part-time work that included job training. Unlike the other adminstrations like the CCC that was getting young people jobs, it included girls.
The National Youth Adminstation allowed students to continue their studying and stay in school, and work part-time so the unemployment rate wouldn't get larger. Even though FDR didn't want to create many jobs for the young people he signed the program so the address the unemployment problem. First, the NYA sent grants to many high schools and college students. The NYA also helped young people who dropped out and were unemployed by on-the-job training so it would help the students when they get older.
The annual budget for the National Young Adminstration was $58,000,000. The NYA helped more than 4.5 million people get jobs. I feel like I'm FDR started his program for young people so they could focus on school and a part-time job to help their family during these hard times. It also gave a lot of people jobs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Administration
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/nya.cfm
http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/08/30/national-youth-administration-48222/
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Well done Jordan!