Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Long title	JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for relief purposes
Enacted by	the 74th United States Congress
Citations
Statutes at Large	49 Stat. 115
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.J. Res. 117 Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 8, 1935

The Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. It was a large public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, the Resettlement Administration, the Rural Electrification Administration, and other assistance programs.^[1] These programs were called the "second New Deal". The programs gave Americans work, for which the government would pay them. The goal was to help unemployment, pull the country out of the Great Depression, and prevent another depression in the future. This was the first and largest system of public-assistance relief programs in American history, and it led to the largest accumulation of national debt.^[2]