Excerpt from United States Community Improvement Appraisal: An Appraisal of the Federal Works Program in Maryland, Including Such Agencies As: Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Civil Works Administration, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration One of the questions before the nation today is Unemployment, and how to deal with it. National opinion appears to be united on one element at least, that is. That we should have more knowledge of the problem as a basis for sound planning. It is important to assemble from original sources, therefore. All the information possible on the plans that have actually been executed. And to attempt to evaluate the experience gained from them. Has the Federal Works Program been useful and permanent? Have relief workers given to the best of their abilities? Has it been more constructive to give work to needy unemployed than to provide food and shelter, the unp employed waiting in idleness for private Jobs? Important information in answer to these questions may be gained from local officials who have had to meet the problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.