This is copied from Wikipedia thus the reference marks. The age group that I would apply to a local variation would be consistent with child labor laws.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed young men age 18-24, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States from 1933 to 1942. As part of the New Deal legislation proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), the CCC was designed to provide relief for unemployed youth who had a very hard time finding jobs during the Great Depression while implementing a general natural resource conservation program on public lands in every U.S. state, including the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The CCC became the most popular New Deal program among the general public, providing jobs for a total of 3 million young men from families on relief.[1] Implicitly the CCC also led to awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's natural resources, especially for city youth.[2] The CCC was never considered a permanent program and depended on emergency and temporary legislation for its existence.[3] On June 30, 1942 Congress voted to eliminate funding for the CCC, formally ceasing active operation of the program.[4]
During the time of the CCC, volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed more than 800 parks nationwide that would become the start of most state parks, forest fire fighting methods were developed and a network of thousands of miles of public roadways and buildings were constructed connecting the nation's public lands
One of the proposals of the "Vision" study is the erection of a recreational complex at the old Wood Printing Press site (Grant and South 2nd).
While FDR took quick and decisive action, were not some of these programs shut ddown via rulings by the Supreme Court?
ReplyDelete9:25A, Hey, I was only 12/13 then and my memory is vague. All of FDR's actions started as emergency executive rulings but every else was passed by a compliance Congress. I am sure that some were overturned by the courts but the PWA,WPA and CCC acts were among the most effective in keeping the country from anarchy. And we still can enjoy the fruits of those acts.
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