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The Federal Emergency Relief Act
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The roosevelt administration named a similar prgram(RFC Reconstruction finance corporation) which was set up by Herbert Hoover and the U.S. congress in 1932.
He was able to begin programs to that put 15 million people to work.
May 22, 1933 FERA was inauguarted.
Fera gave states and localities $3.1 billion to keep local work projects and transient programs operating.
bibliography
http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/eras/federal-emergency-relief-act-of-1933/
http://202snewdeal.weebly.com/federal-emergency-relief-administration-fera.html
http://content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/essay.html
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/fera.html
~560,000 white collar workers between the ages of 16 and 64 on the relief rolls in March 1935
Hopkins appointed a director for the new women's division in October 1933.
These agencies were to plan special projects for the benefit of women.
Some of the work included:
sewing room projects
food canning
nursing
teaching
Is FERA still around today??
The short answer is no but the long answer is that in 1935, it was shut down and replaced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Social Security Board. $500,000,000 was state-run relif money.
What did FERA provide?
FERA provided for three special classe of projects for white-collar workers.
1. planning
2. public health, welfare and recreation
3. education, arts and research
The purpose of FERA or Federal Emergency Relief Act is to provide as much job opportunities to unemployed people to help them get back on to their feet and restart the economy again.
FERA had three primary objectives:
1. Adequacy of relief measures
2. Providing work for employable people on the relief roles, and;
3. Diversification of relief programs.