"Public works" was/is an idea in economics and politics, and most of the expenses of the PWA came in two phases in 1933-35, and again in 1938. The PWA was terminated in 1939 (and spent over $6 billion during its life, and helped to push the economy back to its Pre-Great-Depression era, the PWA’s first two-year budget of $3.3 billion, which is compared to the entire GDP of $60 billion)
The PWA headquarters were in Washington DC, where they designed projects, which were built by private construction companies hiring workers on the open market. It did not hire the unemployed directly. It funded and managed the construction of more than 34,000 projects including airports, large electricity-generating dams, and major warships for the Navy, and bridges, as well as new schools and one-third of the new hospitals.
The PWA was abolished and its functions were transferred to the Federal Works Agency when president FDR moved industry toward war production in June 1943.
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