Title: The New Deal and Three R's - The Great Depression
Headings: President FDR's New Deal and the Three R's
President FDR's New Deal and the Three R's
Relief
Recovery
Reform

Content: The men pictured above were part of the CCC. The CCC gave jobs to many young men to better the environment and help the economy recover by lowering unemployment. WPA was the Works Progress Administration which, like the CCC, gave jobs to millions of unemployed Americans by building new and improved roads (over 650,000 miles of roads were built by the WPA), hospitals, airports, and over 150,000 schools. About 8.5 million Americans were put back to work because of the WPA and programs like it, employing both men and women. Artists were greatly affected by the WPA because they were given finding to create more paintings and murals, which helped feed the creative needs many Americans could not fulfill when the economy was at its worse. These projects got Americans back to work which was another step forward in improving the nations economy that was so badly hurt by the Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration was meant to get Americans back to work. This poster promoting the WPA says "prosperity", which was the overall goal of the New Deal; it was meant to get the United States' economy back to normal and prosperous. " Work Pays America" (which also took the initials of WPA) is the slogan, showing that work projects across the country were important to getting economy back on track.