New Deal failures (employment)

Question 1

Individual measures were limited in scope:

Answer 1

• CWA (1933) only employed people for the winter of 1933-34
• CCC (1933) only employed men ages 17-24
• PWA (1933) only employed skilled workers
• PWA did not make best use of its funds:
  Given a budget of $3.3 billion, but had spent only $110 million after 6 months

Question 2

Employment levels

Answer 2

• The New deal had improved emplyment levels by 1936, but the recession increased them again:
  1936: 14.3%
  1938: 19%

Question 3

World War Two

Answer 3

• World War Two reduced unemployment to pre-Depression levels:
  Unemployment at 2%
  60% of women employed