

Champaign County and Roosevelt's New Deal Programs
By Selina Cochran In 1929, Americans were plunged into an economic depression with the Wall Street crash, also known as Black Thursday. By 1935, the American unemployment rate had dropped to nearly 20%, with no signs that the situation would improve. To combat this, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive orders to create the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1933 and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as part of his New Deal. The PWA focused on
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