Title: Children and Adolescents, Impact of the Great Depression on | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Children and Adolescents, Impact of the Great Depression on
Children and Adolescents, Impact of the Great Depression on
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ON
MODERN CHILDHOOD AND THE ONSET OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
A NEW DEAL FOR CHILDREN
YOUTH CULTURE AND THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Content: Enrollees built recreational facilities and engaged in land conservation work. Life in the CCC was regimented and many officials enforced Jim Crow rules within the camps. CCC participants sometimes served as scapegoats for local community problems, but overall, the CCC was one of the New Deal's most popular relief efforts, ending only after U.S. entrance into World War II. Like the CCC, the National Youth Administration (NYA, 1935–1943) was also a popular New Deal program directed at American youth. As a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the NYA provided part-time work-relief for high school and college-aged students, as well as full-time jobs for unemployed young people no longer in school. The NYA was open to both males an