Second New Deal

• WPA: Works Progress Admin


  Set up in 1935 with Harry Hopkins in charge (head of FERA in the first new deal)

  • 8 million employed to do projects
  • $11 billion spent on men and women in the towns and countryside regardless of race.
  • Provided work.

  Manual labour - roads/parks

  Women - Sewing + teaching

  Youth - training programs

  Writers/performers - guidebook writing
• Help for Poor:

  Work Relief - helped poor find employment (CCC and PWA from first new deal, along with the new WPA)

  Provide temporary housing and improved conditions.

  • Built new suburban towns, however only 3 were constructed, promoting new agency.

  Working conditions: set out minimum wage and maximum hours.