CWA-civil works administration..
-an organizations was created in the new deal to give unemployed people temporarily..
-first employment experiment of the new deal..
-$200 million dollars a month..
-created jobs for women..
-employed 4 million people in january 1943..
USHA
US Housing authority..
-designed to lend money to the states or communities for low cost construction..
-still around today..
-built for low income home buyers..
-178,000 apartments
-13,000 employees
-25% of the apartments availible for low income people..
RFC-reconstrusction finance corperation..
1932..
-philosophy of Herbert Hoover..
-gave loans to banks, state and local gov'ts, and bussinesses to create projects/jobs for people..
-gave states loans for emergency relief needs..
-not as successful as hoover had hoped..
-FDR continued to use it..
-dissolved right after WWII..
talked about new blog assignment..
ITALY :))
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