NICK HUDSON: Has poverty become a career choice in America?
Tuesday, 07 January 2014 16:53 Written by  Nick Hudson Rate this
item (9 votes)  On April 10, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
into legislation the creation of the CCC. It was officially
called the Civilian Conservation Corps. This was a federally
funded program that employed more than 3 million men from 1933
to 1942. It's participants were between 18 to 26 years of age
and they were expected to perform hard physical labor.   The men
were paid $30 per month plus room and board and much of the
money earned was sent home to their families, who at that time
were struggling through the Great Depression. They worked on a
variety of environmental projects. Among other things, they
planted millions of seedling trees, built campgrounds, fisheries
and instituted soil erosion controls. They fought forest fires
and built the roads in many of our national parks.   Did
President Roosevelt create something in 1933 that we can learn
from or even possibly reinstit