Editing Civil Works Administration (section)

==Accomplishments==
CWA workers laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or improved 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 [[playground]]s, and nearly 1,000 airports.<ref name="Peters">{{Citation| last = Peters| first = Charles| author-link = Charles Peters| last2 = Noah| first2 = Timothy | author2-link = Timothy Noah| title = Wrong Harry – Four million jobs in two years? FDR did it in two months| newspaper = [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date =  Jan 26, 2009 | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2209781}}</ref> The program was praised by [[Alf Landon]], who later ran against Roosevelt in the [[1936 United States presidential election|1936 election]].<ref name="Peters"/>

Representative of the work are one county's accomplishments in less than five months, from November 1933 to March 1934. [[Grand Forks County, North Dakota]] put 2,392 unemployed workers on its payroll at a cost of about $250,000. When the CWA began in eastern Connecticut, it could hire only 480 workers out of 1,500 who registered for jobs. Projects undertaken included work on city [[Public utility|utility systems]], public buildings, parks, and roads. Rural areas profited, with most labor being directed to roads and community schools. CWA officials gave preference to veterans with dependents, but considerable political favoritism determined which North Dakotans got jobs.<ref>Roger D. Hardaway, "The New Deal at the Local Level: The Civil Works Administration in Grand Forks County, North Dakota," ''North Dakota History,'' 1991, Vol. 58 Issue 2, pp 20–30</ref>
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File:Camp Verde-Rock Jail-1933.JPG|Rock jail in [[Camp Verde, Arizona]] (1933)
File:Civil Works Administration(CWA) marker (1934) on Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin CWA marker.jpg|CWA marker at [[Breese Stevens Field]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]] (1934)
File:Phoenix-Grant Park-1934.JPG|Marker for Grant Park in Phoenix (1934)
File:CWA-Minnesota-Road-Construction.jpg|CWA project in Minnesota to straighten a road by removing a solid rock obstruction (1934)
File:Goldsmith-Schiffman Field construction.jpg|[[Goldsmith–Schiffman Field|Building the high school athletic field in Huntsville, Alabama]] (1934)
File:CWA, Sanitary District of Chicago, Illinois - NARA - 195647.tiff|CWA sanitary workers in Chicago (1933)
File:Grandview Park Music Pavilion 2.JPG|[[Grandview Park Music Pavilion]], Sioux City, Iowa (1934)
File:CWA 6000 men.jpg|Scenic boulevard built by 6,000 workers in [[San Francisco, California]] (1934)
File:El Monte Golf Clubhouse Ogden Utah.jpeg|El Monte Golf Course Clubhouse in Ogden, Utah (1935)
File:Gunter Annex Hangar.jpg|Hangar at the municipal airport in Montgomery, Alabama (1934)
File:Rocky Neck State Park Trail Bridge and Pavillion IMG 6100 (2) 6x8.jpg|[[Rocky Neck State Park|Rocky Neck State Park Trail Bridge]] in East Lyme, Connecticut (1934)
File:StocktonMoCommunityBuilding.jpg|Community building in Stockton, Missouri (1934)
File:Grey Eagle Village Hall.jpg|[[Grey Eagle Village Hall]] in Grey Eagle, Minnesota (1934)
File:CWA Leonidas Stone School Front of building from Drone.png|alt=Front of the art work on Leonidas Stone School|[[Leonidas Stone School]] (Leonidas, Michigan).
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