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. 1935 SEP 9 !WESTERN No-4 _ _... 278 d VERSIT'( L IBRARY, THE WORKS PROGRAM --- Works Progress Ad.ministration --- ir immediate release A11t,cu st 29 , 19 35 • 1urs day , rks Progra.'11 brings end to Federal relief in Alab-'.lma and Wyoming. Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator and Federal Emergency lief Administrator, today announced that employment on projects under the rks Program has brought an end to FederR-1 relief :.n Alabama and \1/'yoming, i in these tvm States the program has achieved its immediate objective. With 32,000 men and women at work under the '.Vorks Program in Alabama l 950 at ,-rork in Wyoming, Mr. Hopkins announced that these two States will ~eive no grants of Federal funds for emergency relief in September. leral Government has 11 qui The t this business of relief" in these States. Through A11t,"1.1.st 27, Works Program projects approved for Alabama totalled The total Federal allotment for these projects was $35,170,730. Through the same date, Works Program projects apprnved for Wyoming ;alled 105, e.nd the total Federal allotment was $18, % 1,471. Additional projects will be submitted from time to thne by both States provide jobs for the necessary volume of Works Program workers. With prelimina!'y preparation on many projects now complete, the rate of Lrting them in terms of putting men and women from the relief rolls at work 1 be considerably accelerated. Among the first to send Works Progrruu projects to Washington and to eive approval, Alabama and Wyoming have rapidly transferred their able mployed from relief rolls to the pay rolls of tho program. Their Works gram schedule calls for the assignment of rnany others to projects in the ,ainder of kugust and through September so that their activities will q_uicJ::ly into full s·wing. Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 1To-4 -- 278 In explaining the significance of the achievement, Mr. Hopkins said: 11 The Works Program has reached its immediate objective according to the the schedules for Alabama and Wyoming. The employable needy have been taken from the relief rolls and put to work on useful public projects at security wages. Those who have not already been transferred to work projects will be soon, so that during September further Fed.eral relief funds will not be required. "Balances of ]'ederal relief funds now in the hands of the two States will assist them in adjusting to the new si tu;:i,tion, so that in the period of reorganization all needs will be met. 11 State and local provisions in the future will truce care of the unemploy- 1bles, such as the aged, the physically h&ncicapped, mothers with dependent :hildren, and others who constitute the local welfare problem. "The Federal Government, through the Works Program, has recognized that ;he problem created by unrn,1ployment is primarily national. On the other hand, .ocal and State fino.ncia.l responsibility for t~1.e unemnloy.s.bles is based on the ,bvious local character of this aspect of relief needs. This concept, defining :he two phases of the relief problem, according to national responsibility for mployable persons and State and local responsibili t y i or unemployables, has een recognized by the FERA since its beginning. "However, the Presid.ent 1 s message to Congross on t:1c Works Program ' mphasized ~-0re clearly the division which places responsibility for direct elief for unemployables on States and localities:, while the Federal Government ssumes the responsibility for employable persons whose need is caused by the ational problem of unenployment. 11 Various preparations have been made by the two St a tes and their cities, owns, and counties to ca.rry the costs of direct relief. Alabama has macl.e $3,000,000 available for tho p01·iod beginning July 1, 335, and the governor ce n use it for various relief l)urpo c es, according to the eeds of the various types of unemployables. 'f This is e:,,..'})ected to be supplemented about $1,000,000 of •local funds. Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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