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Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by the New Deal to create Make Work jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the CWA on November 8, 1933. It was replaced due to the Federal Emergency Relief Act in 1934.