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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to a program similar to unemployment-relief efforts of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an Independent agencies of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932....
 (RFC) set up by Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 and the U.S. Congress in 1932. It was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act (ch. 30, , enacted 1933-05-12).

The Act was the first direct-relief operation under the New Deal
New Deal

The New Deal was the name that United States President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the Economy of the Unite...
, and was headed by Harry L.






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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to a program similar to unemployment-relief efforts of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an Independent agencies of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932....
 (RFC) set up by Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 and the U.S. Congress in 1932. It was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act (ch. 30, , enacted 1933-05-12).

The Act was the first direct-relief operation under the New Deal
New Deal

The New Deal was the name that United States President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the Economy of the Unite...
, and was headed by Harry L. Hopkins, a New York social worker who was one of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , often referred to by his initials FDR, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
's most influential advisers. Hopkins was a believer in relief efforts that emphasized work, and that FERA's main goal was to alleviate adult unemployment. In order to achieve this goal, FERA provided state assistance for the unemployed and their families. From when it began in May 1933 until it closed its operations in December 1935, it gave states and localities $3.1 billion to operate local work projects and transient programs. FERA provided work for over 20 million people and developed facilities on public lands across the country. Faced with continued high unemployment and concerns for public welfare during the coming winter of 1933-34, FERA instituted the Civil Works Administration
Civil Works Administration

The Civil Works Administration was established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to create jobs for millions of unemployed. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter....
 (CWA) as a $400 million short-term measure to get people to work. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was terminated in 1935 and its work taken over by the WPA
Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting almost every locality in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations....
 and the Social Security Board
Social Security Administration

The United States Social Security Administration is an Independent agencies of the United States government of the United States federal government of the United States that administers Social Security , a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits....
.

It put $500,000,000 into state-run relief money.

External links

  • program description
  • Essay on the program and images documenting the Federal Emergency Relief Administration program in King County, Washington, 1933-35.