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 (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 and the Social Security Board. it put $500,000,000 into ...