The Public Works Administration (P. W. A. ), a New Deal government agency headed by Harold Ickes, was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 during the Great Depression. The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D Harold LeClair Ickes ( March 15, 1874 &ndash February 3, 1952) was a United States administrator and Politician The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933, Ch [1] It allowed 3. 3 billion dollars 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. Public works are the construction or engineering projects carried out by the State on behalf of the Community. [1] When President Franklin Roosevelt moved industry toward war production and abandoned his opposition to deficit spending, the PWA became irrelevant and was abolished in June 1941.
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- Works Progress Administration, America Builds: The Record of WPA (1939)
- Harold L. Ickes, Back to Work: The Story of WPA (1935)
- Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (2006)