Question

What are the similarities between the works progress administration (WPA) and the Civilian conservation corps(CCC)

Answer 1

Both agencies carried out public works projects and both engaged mostly young, unskilled, unmarried and unemployed men.

Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency. It employed millions of people, mostly unskilled young men, to do public works projects. The projects included building construction of public buildings and roads, parks and bridges. WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the USA. It offered jobs for more than three million unemployed men and women, as well as younger people in a separate division.

Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program in the USA from 1933 to 1942. The Corps provided jobs for mostly unemployed and unmarried men, aged 17-18. The agency was created to find jobs for young men and to relieve families who couldn't find jobs during the Great Depression. The jobs offered were related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by the state. Three million young men participated in this program that provided them with shelter, clothing, food and a small wage.