Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

The Emergency 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 for the jobless that included the Works Progress Administration. It allocated $4.88 billion for this purpose.

Of the funds appropriated by the act, $27 million was approved for the Federal Art Project, the Federal Writers' Project and the Federal Theatre Project under the WPA-sponsored Federal Project Number One.

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