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PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION
Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression.
It created an infrastructure that generated national and local pride in the 1930s and remains vital seven decades later.
The PWA spent over $6 billion, but did not succeed
The Public Works Administration was formed by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in reaction to the Great Depression (which was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II). When FDR (Financial Dispute Resolution) which refers to an independent dispute resolution scheme for consumers and financial service providers to use when they are unable to resolve a dispute, moved industry towards war production and abandoned his opposition to deficit spending. The Public Works Administration was abolished in 1941.
