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On this very day we will be starting our new program that will be called PWA. (Public Work Administration act) It will consist of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of American industry.We want to spend big bucks on big projects so everyone understands.After debate back and forth my friend Frances Perkins suggested we help finance public work programs. The idea was recieved a considerable support from Harold Iclkes and James Farley also Henry Wallace. So after much great thought i decided to agree to include the administration as part of his New Deal reforms.People we are in a depression. Farmers are loosing there live stock by selling it to make a little bit of money. There loosing all that theve worked hard for like there farm and crops. People of america we need to do something about the unemployement rate, is sky rocketing out of control. 25% of americans are unemployed and need to get back to work.As our business's fail weve had to cut wages,lower pay cuts and lay off people. Im going to help out my fellow citizens and make things well again.Right now our cycle is at the point to were most business are closeing and no money is being circulated around."If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a life time."We need to open some more mom and pop stores so our middle class workers have money to support there families. I dont want our econmy to fail. We can do it,we'll come outta this faze, dont worry we will succeed! Right now The only people that are making and having money are the wealthy ones, and we dont want to have that. We want and even distrubition of wealth amung everybody.So today this is our new plan to start and get people back on their feet!
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April Westover Project G My grandpa John Venable is the person i did my report on. He was never in the war, but he lived in that era. I asked him how did his family get food. He said everybody had their own garden. If you didnt have a garden you didnt eat. Alot of people worked for the governement at that time. So lots of people were starving, homeless, and had no jobs to help there familes. People were greatful when the government strepped in finally to help their people out.My grandpa said no one trusted the banks. After the whole money deal people just put their money any were in their house. He said most young people had to get jobs to support their familes. They statyed oin school as long as they could. My grandpa had to drop out of school and get a job when he was young because he had to take care of his pregnant girlfriend and their upcoming baby. Everybody had to work hard for what they wanted. He said it helped people of his time appericate what they had. It was a struggle he kept reminding me. All my grandads clothing were hand me downs. He was the youngest of seven brothers and sisters.Johns dad worked in an oil mill, working 12-14 hour days. His mom worked in a sewing company untill she married my great grandpa.They were a poor family. Their christmas back then were not extravgant at all. They'd be lucky if they got an orange. After a couple of days the kids would go down to the garbage dump and collect the toys the rich kids would throw out. That was x-mas for the grandad. Cars were limited back then. If anybody had cars it was the rich ones. My grandpa said if you had a car it was an old junker. You'd have to work on it every week to keep it runing. His dad had a car for 18 years befor it crapped out. My grandpas motto is "A man is only worth his last days pay." He said if you thought his family was poor there was a family down the street living in a shack with 17 kids. They were bottom of the barrel poor. His family always went down and gave them their left over food or what ever they could so their family could survive. Everybody tryed to help eachother back then. Everybody started to come out of the depression in 1941. Nobody was rich, but you had your head above the water. It was hard for him and his family and everbody else, but they made it through it. John venable is my grandpa. His phone number is private so im not putting it on here.

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