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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
1933: In March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed Congress to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps. 1935: The Social Security Act was passed on June 17, 1935. The bill included direct relief (cash, food stamps, etc.) and changes for unemployment insurance. 1940: Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) was established.
Civilian Conservation Corps (5 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Unemployment in the United States" ... Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010;
The plan is based on the FDR-era Civilian Conservation Corps and calls for spending billions of dollars on a raft of conservation priorities.
Along with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), it was the first relief operation under the New Deal. FERA's main goal was to alleviate household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Jobs were more expensive than direct cash payments (called "the dole"), but were psychologically more beneficial to the ...
Civilian Conservation Corps South Dakota was created to solve unemployment and deteriorating national resources. In South Dakota the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided work for 23,709 enrollees and veterans , 4,554 Indians , and 2834 supervisory and office personnel.
Unemployment rate in the U.S. 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted; counts people with WPA & CCC jobs as "unemployed." With Roosevelt's influence on the wane following the failure of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, conservative Democrats joined with Republicans to block the implementation of ...
Civilian Conservation Corps in Puerto Rico (7 P) C. Civilian Conservation Corps camps (1 C, 23 P) M. Civilian Conservation Corps museums (14 P) P.