Federal Project Number One

Examples of Federal Project Number One in the following topics:

• Culture in the Thirties

  • The first short-lived New Deal program that supported cultural projects was the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) that run from December 1933 to June 1934.
  • PWAP was replaced by the Federal Art Project (FAP), one of the cultural programs under the 1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA) and a much more ambitious and expansive arts program that its predecessor.
  • FAP was part of the Federal Project Number One, a WPA umbrella program that supported not only visual arts but also literature (under the Federal Writers' Project), music (the Federal Music Project), and theater (the Federal Theater Project).
  • Writers, musicians, and theater artists were funded to create both their own original projects and projects under the auspices of the government.
  • A number of popular genres, including gangster films, musicals, comedies, or monster movies, attracted mass audiences, regardless of the economic crisis.

• Toward a Welfare State

  • FDR's New Deal established a number of influential welfare programs, the first of their kind in the United States.
  • Also under WPA, a number of additional programs offered opportunities targeted at specific populations.
  • The Federal Project Number One created jobs for writers, musicians, artists, and theater personnel.
  • Under the Federal Writer's Project, writers cataloged archives, documented folklore, and collected what today would be labeled as oral histories.
  • Under the Federal Theater Project, actresses and actors, technicians, writers, and directors were able to produce plays.

• Federal Grants and National Efforts to Influence the States

  • In the United States, federal grants are economic aid issued by the federal government out of the general federal revenue.
  • Project grants—grants given by the government to fund research projects, such as medical research.
  • Categorical grants are distributed either on a formula basis or a project basis.
  • For project grants, states compete for funding; the federal government selects specific projects based on merit.
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• Evaluating the Recent United States Stimulus Package

  • The Act included direct spending in infrastructure, education, health, and energy, federal tax incentives, and expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions.
  • These results cast doubt on previously stated estimates of job creation numbers, which do not take into account those companies that did not retain their workers.
  • One of the primary purposes and promises of the Act was to launch a large number projects to stimulate the economy.
  • However, a sizable number of these projects, many of which pertained to infrastructure, took longer to implement than they had expected by most.
  • Just because the money was there for the projects did not mean that the projects were "shovel-ready": there was a delay between when the funding became available and when the project could actually begin.

• Employment Policy

  • Federal law also provides more limited rights for employees of the federal government.
  • States and local governments can, on the other hand, impose requirements when acting as market participants, such as requiring that all contractors sign a project labor agreement to avoid strikes when building a public works project, that they could not if they were attempting to regulate those employers' labor relations directly.
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) establishes minimum wage and overtime rights for most private sector workers, with a number of exemptions and exceptions.
  • A number of states have enacted higher minimum wages and extended their laws to cover workers who are excluded under the FLSA or to provide rights that federal law ignores.
  • The federal government, along with many state governments, also requires employers to pay the prevailing wage to workers on public works projects, a practice which typically reflects the standards established by unions' collective bargaining agreements in the area.

• Relief and Conservation Programs

  • At that time, the federal government provided no safety net: there was no unemployment insurance, no Social Security, and no welfare.
  • One of the Roosevelt administration's primary methods of providing relief was to give the unemployed jobs in government-financed projects.
  • The New Deal thus included many major, federally-financed public works projects, including the construction of bridges, airports, dams, post offices, courthouses, and thousands of kilometers of road.
  • New Deal projects reclaimed millions of hectares of soil from erosion and devastation.
  • Ickes, the PWA spent over $6 billion on 34,599 projects.

• Toward Permanent Unions

  • The Knights were especially successful in developing a working class culture, involving women, families, sports, leisure activities, and educational projects.
  • One of the earliest railroad strikes was also one of the most successful.
  • The AFL was always larger but both federations grew enormously during World War II.
  • The percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States peaked in 1954 at almost 35% and the total number of union members peaked in 1979 at an estimated 21.0 million.
  • Samuel Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887.

• Cost of capital

  • The cost of capital is the rate companies must pay to finance a project.
  • Firms usually calculate a single cost of capital number, and, under economic theory, will only pursue projects with an expected return greater than the cost of capital.
  • The cost of capital is used to evaluate a company's new projects.
  • The cost of capital sets a benchmark that the new project must meet.
  • One way of combining the cost of debt and equity to generate a single cost of capital number is through the weighted-average cost of capital (WACC).

• Housing Policy

  • Public housing is administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized assistance to those with low-incomes.
  • Public housing in the United States has been administered by federal, state, and local agencies to provide subsidized assistance for low-income people and those living in poverty.
  • Subsidized apartment buildings in the U.S. are usually called housing projects, and the slang term for a group of these buildings is "the projects".
  • One of the most unique U.S. public housing initiatives was the development of subsidized middle-class housing during the late New Deal (1940–42) under the auspices of the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency under the direction of Colonel Lawrence Westbrook.
  • Wells projects in Chicago, were actually low-rise towers.

• Tax-Supported Art

  • In the USA and Canada, grants are available to fund artistic projects in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, theater, music, dance, new media, and interdisciplinary art forms.
  • In the United States, the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the federal government that offers funding to projects it deems exhibit artistic excellence.
  • In Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts funds the projects of artists in much the same way as the NEA, but allots more funding to the arts based on population.
  • The grant application typically entails submitting a project proposal in relationship to one's artistic practice, as well as a detailed budget, timeline, and curriculum vitae (c.v.).
  • Project grants are intended to cover the immediate costs of a project as well as the living expenses of the artist for the duration of the project.