Some of the New Deal programs were designed to be “pump priming”–to s

Some of the New Deal programs were designed to be “pump priming”–to stimulate the economy through government spending. Identify three such programs and specify how they tried to achieve their goal.

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
The PWA, WPA, CWA and other public works construction programs were intended to prime the pump of economic recovery. All were designed to provide jobs (and thus spendable income) to the unemployed. They built hospitals, schools, dams, roads, and other public works.