HIST 4060 Chapter : New Deal Relief
Document Summary
New deal relief, reform, and results: relief programs, federal emergency relief administration (fera, this did provide money to state to deal with the unemployment, homeless, and hungry within state programs. The problem is this program, because the federal government didn"t want to control everything; they gave money to the states to give out (to avoid complaints from the state). A lot of local prejudices block the money from going to the people who needed it most. Like black families got less in the south. Local politicians used money that would benefit them like to their supporters: public works administration (pwa, employs a lot of people, but two problems. It took a long time to go into effect with planning projects. It takes a year for the first project to start. Bank deposits are now, for the first time since the depression, outnumbering withdrawals. Within a month, 70% of banks reopen, then by.
