Franklin D. Roosevelt provided jobs primarily through the New Deal, a series of programs launched during the Great Depression. Rather than relying only on private businesses to hire workers, the federal government directly funded employment and public projects. Some of the main ways he created jobs were:
Public Works Administration (PWA): Paid private contractors to build large infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals, bridges, dams, and highways. These projects created construction and manufacturing jobs.
Works Progress Administration (WPA): One of the largest job programs, it directly employed millions of unemployed Americans to build roads, parks, airports, sidewalks, schools, and public buildings. It also hired artists, musicians, writers, and actors for cultural projects.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): Employed young men to work on conservation projects, including planting billions of trees, building trails, preventing soil erosion, and improving national and state parks.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): Created jobs by building dams, hydroelectric power plants, and flood-control systems across the Tennessee Valley, while also bringing electricity to rural communities.
Rural Electrification and other infrastructure programs: Funded projects that expanded electrical service, improved roads, and modernized public facilities, creating additional employment.
These programs had two main goals:
Give unemployed people immediate income through paid work.
Leave behind infrastructure that would support long-term economic growth.
What schemes would you design to create jobs today?
Hundreds of illegal migrants to be put in existing military barracks
The government changed women's pension age and called it progress. Did anyone actually ask you?
