Transcript Public Works Administration Brandon Plourd W3

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 The PWA was created on June 16th, 1933.
 Between July 1933 and March 1939, the PWA
funded34,000 civil projects, such as roads, bridges,
airports, dams, and other similar projects.
PWA Workers
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 The purpose of the PWA was to provide jobs, stabilize
purchasing power, improve public welfare, and to revive
American industry.
 The Public Works Administration budgeted several billion
dollars towards large projects.
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 Unemployed people took any chance they could to get
jobs in the Great Depression. In a time where women
had limited rights, they were given the opportunity to
work for the PWA alongside men.
 The PWA did not significantly reduce the unemployment
rate, but their accomplishments were highly noted at the
time
Workers carrying bricks for a high school under construction in New Jersey
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 During the time of the Great Depression, the PWA built
seventy percent of the schools built in that time and one
third of hospitals built at that time.
 They also electrified the Pennsylvania Railroad between
Washington D.C. and New York. They also constructed
around 25,000 housing units in four and a half years.
Breaking ground on a construction project
in Washington D.C. 1933
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 The PWA did not return industrial activity to pre-
depression levels, nor did it help jump start a revolution
of creations of small businesses.
 However, the PWA’s progress is of high importance
today. It gave the government its first systematic network
for the distribution of funds to localities, made sure that
conservation would remain a key factor in the national
discussion, and gave government officials a broad
amount of needed experience in public policy planning.
Coos Bay Bridge, Oregon
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 The PWA is no longer in use today. It was abolished in
June of 1941, to focus more on the production of war
materials. After the spending of several billion dollars, the
PWA’s projects were turned over to the Works Progress
Administration, the PWA’s relative administration.
Works Progress Administration propaganda
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 "Public Works Administration." U.S. National Park Service -
Experience Your America. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2010.
<http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/pwa.htm>.
 "Laziness and the P.W.A.." The Informercantile. N.p., n.d. Web. 3
Jan. 2010. <www.infomercantile.com/blog/labels/farming.html>.
 "Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering
Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HABS/HAER) HABS/HAER Highlights (American Memory from the Library of
Congress)." American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home
Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2010.
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