FERA

-FERA operated a wide variety of work relief project such as- construction, writers, artists, actors & musicians. -FERA had three primary objectives: Adequacy of relief measures; providing work for employable people on the relief rolls; & diversification of relief programs.
 * Federal Emergency Relief Administration;**

The New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1934) attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression by the establishment of a number of emergency relief programs. Among these the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) program, the first of his major relief operations, provided state assistance for the unemployed and their families. It has been estimated that during this period of relief, roughly three-fourths of the heads of families on relief were employable. It has been estimated that during this period of relief, roughly three-fourths of the heads of families on relief were employable.



FERA's main goal was alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. As the CWA program drew to a close in March 1934, it was replaced by the Emergency Work Relief Program of FERA. This program continued and expanded many of the projects begun under the CWA.



The following collection documents FERA projects established in King County. These include street construction, bridge building and sewer laying projects; park grounds and playfield improvements; school and public building construction and repair; land clearing, landscaping, wood cutting and land slide prevention; ditching, dredging, flood control and waterway improvement projects; establishment of FERA offices and stores; creation of recreation projects for children; organization of furniture, stove and tool repair, sewing, clothing distribution, boot and shoe repair, toy-making shops.


 * The Federal Emergency Relief Administration operated a wide variety of work relief project such as- construction, writers, artists, etc.


 * The program had a great impact on the American people and the country overall, It gave jobs to people who wanted them desperately and they built a lot of important things from congress buildings to bridges to roads.


 * A lot of the roads we drive on today, were first paved by these workers.