Today was a research day for our project on the 1920's. My topics are the Social Security Administration and the Civil Works administration. The Civil Works Administration or CWA was established by president Roosevelt in the New Deal during the great depression. The CWA was created on November 8, 1933 and eventually came to and end on March 31, 1934.The CWA created millions of jobs for the unemployed, but the jobs were only temporary. The program mainly made jobs in the construction buisness mainly in improving the structure of buildings and bridges. The CWA cost $200 million per month. The administration hired 4 million people and by the end of its 5 month period the plan had overshot its budget of $400 million and spent over a billion dollars.The CWA did have many accomplishments though. The CWA had four million workers that laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or made improvements to 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds, and nearly 1,000 airports, and 250,000 houses still badly needed in rural America.The Social Security Administration was a independent agency of the United States federal government. The SSA is a social insurance program that consists of retired, disabled, and survivors.Most American's pay part of a income tax that takes money out of their paycheck and into the social security's funds. The first social security office opened in Austin Texas, on October 14, 1936. social security taxes were collected for the first time on January 1937, along with the first one-time, lump-sum payments.Social security takes a part of your paycheck and pays it to someone else who is on the program, and when you reach 65 the same is true for you. younger people pay social security and you receive the benefits of it.
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