Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
United States history
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establishment by Roosevelt
- In Franklin D. Roosevelt: Paralysis to presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
…Republican-dominated legislature to establish the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, which eventually provided unemployment assistance to 10 percent of New York’s families. His aggressive approach to the economic problems of his state, along with his overwhelming electoral victory in 1930, boosted Roosevelt into the front ranks of contenders for the Democratic…
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