Editing Civil Works Administration (section)

{{short description|US federal government job-creation program (1933–34)}}
[[File:Civil Works Administration (CWA) workmen cleaning and painting the gold dome of the Denver Capitol, 1934 - NARA - 541904.jpg|thumb|Civil Works Administration workers cleaning and painting the gold dome of the [[Colorado State Capitol]] (1934).]]
The '''Civil Works Administration''' ('''CWA''') was a short-lived [[job creation program]] established by the [[New Deal]] during the [[Great Depression in the United States]] in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveiled the CWA on November 8, 1933, and put [[Harry L. Hopkins]] in charge of the short-term agency.

The CWA was a project created under the [[Federal Emergency Relief Administration]] (FERA). The CWA created construction jobs, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges. It ended on March 31, 1934, after spending $200 million a month and giving jobs to four million people.