1. By- Alyssa Beaupre W-1

2.  Created on June 16, 1933 by the National Industrial Recovery Act.

3.  Congress allowed the PWA to spend $3.3 billion dollars to spend on the construction of various projects such as schools, playgrounds, hospitals, post offices, roads, dames and bridges.  From 1933- 1939 the PWA funded more than 34,000 projects.  Provided employment and improved public welfare

4.  Frances Perkins had suggested a public works program.  Perkins’ idea had been supported by Harold Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace. PerkinsIckesFarley Wallace

5.  Construction, landscaping, paving, and lighting on the campus of UNM (University of New Mexico)  Provided electricity to the Pennsylvania Railroad from Ney York to Washington, D.C.  Participated in the construction of Omaha, Nebraska’s Douglas Street Bridge.

6.  The PWA was not very effective in some ways.  It had some failures.  Quality was not the best  Everyone could not afford housing  Did not effectively reduce unemployment levels  But the PWA did make sure that conservation would remain as an important part of the national issues.

7.  The PWA soon became irrelevant after FDR started focusing on war production and forgot about his opposition on deficit spending. The PWA was abolished in mid 1941.