New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority created industrial jobs in cities.
The fight against unemployment mobilized the Roosevelt administration from the months following its inauguration.
Several programs came to light quickly. Aware of the fact that young people potentially represented future owners and that their propensity to fall into crime or poverty was higher, Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, financed with treasury bonds, on March 31, 1933. It allowed, thanks to reforestation work, to combat erosion and floods, the hiring of thousands of unemployed young people throughout the country: 250,000 jobs were created for people between 18 and 25 years, and in eight years , the CCC guaranteed a monthly salary of 30 dollars to about two million young men.
Likewise, the first major work programs also received a green light in 1933. The most famous, the one from the Tennessee Valley Authority, dealt with the construction of dams in order to condition the territory of the Tennessee River basin, to limit flooding and to increase hydroelectric production, granting employment to the unemployed with all these actions.
