Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief

Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Great Depression
Unemployment relief—United States
New Deal
Public works—United States
Economic recovery—United States
Federal relief programs

In this message to Congress delivered on March 21, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a large-scale federal response to unemployment during the Great Depression. Roosevelt called for emergency relief measures and public works programs designed to provide jobs for unemployed Americans while improving the nation’s infrastructure. The message helped lay the foundation for New Deal relief agencies and demonstrated the administration’s commitment to direct federal action in addressing economic hardship.

American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara

Peters, Gerhard
Woolley, John T.

1933-03-21

Text

Digital text (presidential message)

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-unemployment-relief-0

American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara

English

Related to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); related to New Deal relief programs

1933 United States

Public domain