Employee and Retiree Benefits Changes for 2023. Workforce State of the Unions: A New Normal ...

After the start of the Civil Works program in 1824, Congress and cabinet officials oversaw the Army's involvement in Civil Works projects. Congress authorized projects, appropriated funds ...

The CWA was the Civil Works Administration, led by Harry Hopkins. Both were New Deal agencies created in 1933 to get Americans quickly back to work at a time when unemployment reached 25 percent, ...

ON November 9, 1933, the Civil Works Administration was created by order of the President for the purpose of ‘increasing employment quickly.’ The sum of $400,000,000 was taken from the Public ...

On the banks of the Ohio River in southern Illinois, construction has been underway since the Reagan administration to complete one of the largest civil works projects in U.S. history.

WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt today ordered the "prompt liquidation" of the Works Projects Administration, last of a succession of New Deal relief agencies which together have spent ...

In December 1933, the Civil Works Administration began hiring and paying unemployed workers in St. Louis during the Depression. In 1933, a federal program employed thousands and gave a man his ...

“The inauguration of the civil works program and its speedy getting into action is, to our minds, one of the wisest moves the administration has yet made,” the paper wrote on Nov. 28, 1933.