Public Works Administration
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The United States Public Works Administration, a New Deal government agency headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 during the Great Depression.[1] It allowed $3.3 billion to be spent on the construction of public works to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, improve public welfare, and contribute to a revival of American industry.[1]
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved industry toward war production, the PWA was abolished and its functions transferred to the Federal Works Agency in June 1943.[2]
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- ^ a b "Public Works Administration" from Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt, ed. by Allida Black, June Hopkins, et al. (Hyde Park, New York: Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, U.S. National Park Service, 2003). Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ "Executive Order 9357 - Transferring the Functions of the Public Works Administration to the Federal Works Agency." June 30, 1943. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters,The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database); Olson, James Stuart. Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 0313306184
