President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second New Deal had a significant impact on Mendocino County when it passed in 1935. Nearly 3,000 county residents were “on relief,” approximately 12% of the county’s population. The Second New Deal created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), an agency funded through the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, a five-billion-dollar work relief […]
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