Add to ORKG[Excerpt] This report first describes the social policy environment in which the 1930s job creation programs were developed and examines the reasons for their shortcomings then and as models for current-day countercyclical employment measures. It then provides a brief overview of the two job creation programs of the Depression-era that Members of Congress have asked about most frequently: the Works Progress or Projects Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by for...
This paper uses the 1937 and 1940 county level census data to estimate what effect did additional pe...
[Excerpt] Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recover...
This report first describes the social policy environment in which the 1930s job creation programs w...
The Great Depression brought about a trial the likes of which the United States had never seen. Peop...
Economic conditions during the 1930s caused unprecedented problems for the American people. The most...
This study concerns itself with one response the federal government made to deal with jobless white-...
Creation of American national and state-run employment offices to aid the jobless was an uncertain a...
Before the Great Depression of the 1930s, the notion that govern-ment ought to be responsible for cr...
Becoming the first U.S. state to provide direct funding and administrative support for work relief t...
James E. SherowAfter the stock market crash of 1929, the country fell into a deep financial depressi...
Some things change little with time in the United States. One example of this is unemployment which ...
Regarded as one of the greatest struggles in American history, the Great Depression was a catalyst n...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA), served as a catalyst for public works programs, specificall...
Review of: Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation, by Peter Fea...
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by for...
This paper uses the 1937 and 1940 county level census data to estimate what effect did additional pe...
[Excerpt] Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recover...
This report first describes the social policy environment in which the 1930s job creation programs w...
The Great Depression brought about a trial the likes of which the United States had never seen. Peop...
Economic conditions during the 1930s caused unprecedented problems for the American people. The most...
This study concerns itself with one response the federal government made to deal with jobless white-...
Creation of American national and state-run employment offices to aid the jobless was an uncertain a...
Before the Great Depression of the 1930s, the notion that govern-ment ought to be responsible for cr...
Becoming the first U.S. state to provide direct funding and administrative support for work relief t...
James E. SherowAfter the stock market crash of 1929, the country fell into a deep financial depressi...
Some things change little with time in the United States. One example of this is unemployment which ...
Regarded as one of the greatest struggles in American history, the Great Depression was a catalyst n...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA), served as a catalyst for public works programs, specificall...
Review of: Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation, by Peter Fea...
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by for...
This paper uses the 1937 and 1940 county level census data to estimate what effect did additional pe...
[Excerpt] Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recover...