F.E.R.A-Federal Emergency Relief Administration
How F.E.R.A was created...
E.R.A (Emergency Relief Administration) was created in 1931 by president Herbert Hoover. He used it go give money loans to states that needed them to make relief programs. After Hoovers collapse, F.D.R (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) came to the rescue when he renamed it F.E.R.A. F.E.R.A was one of the most successful programs of the "Alphabet Agencies".
What was the purpose of F.E.R.A
The main purpose of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was to get people money just like all the other Alphabet Agencies. It gave usually 1.00 to people who worked for F.E.R.A. It was also the first major relief operations of the many to come, so many people lined up to try and get a job and found it a relief to finally get support from a president. It also got many citizens that had no jobs, money jobs that payed them. It gave jobs that really didn't need any skills or any teaching to do those kinds of jobs. More than 20 million people who didn't get jobs got saved by the F.E.R.A giving them jobs. F.E.R.A was for women and men giving everyone a better chance to get a job.
The first of many...
When F.E.R.A was up and running, it gave may people an opportunity to get jobs everywhere. The main jobs where civil engineering and constructing to try and improve living conditions and to try and put an end to Hoovervilles. The other following jobs where: street construction, bridge building and sewer laying projects; park grounds and playfield improvements; school and public building construction and repair; land clearing, landscaping, wood cutting and land slide prevention; ditching, dredging, flood control and waterway improvement projects; establishment of F.E.R.A offices and stores; creation of recreation projects for children; organization of furniture, stove and tool repair, sewing, clothing distribution, boot and shoe repair, toy-making shops.