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Chris Paine.  Started up in 1933.  Allowed 3.3 billion dollars to be used for roads and bridges.  Gave unemployed Americans jobs.

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1 Chris Paine

2  Started up in 1933.  Allowed 3.3 billion dollars to be used for roads and bridges.  Gave unemployed Americans jobs.

3  Create roads and bridges for Americas infrastructure.  Give jobs to the overly large population of unemployed Americans.

4  Any one who needed a job and got hired to make roads and bridges and improve the current infrastructure.

5  PWA funded the construction of more than 34,000 projects.  Includes airports, electricity-generating dams, and aircraft carriers.  Seventy percent of the new schools and one third of the hospitals built during that time.  It also electrified the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Washington, D.C.

6  This was a great program that gave thousands of Americans jobs during the depression.  Though it was a good program it was replaced in 1943.

7  The Public Works Administration was replaced by the Federal Works Administration in 1943.  It was replaced to have the nationwide program run through the government.


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