priority of the new administration. Roosevelt once remarked, " The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" (Tindall and Shi 1241). Congress' first step in accomplishing this goal was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC was designed to give work to unmarried young men aged eighteen to twenty-five. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) gave money to states in the form of grants. The money was then handed out to relief clients in the form of dire
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