What is Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
{{Infobox government agency |agency_name = Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |type = |nativename = |nativename_a = |nativename_r = |logo = |logo_width = |logo_caption = |seal = |seal_width = |seal_caption = |picture = FERA camp in Pennsylvania.jpg |picture_width = |picture_caption = Camp for unemployed women in Pennsylvania (1934) |formed = May 1933<!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> |preceding1 = Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) |preceding2 = <!-- (etc.) --> |dissolved = December 1935 |superseding = [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA) |jurisdiction = |headquarters = |coordinates = |employees = Provided work for over 20 million people |budget = |minister1_name = |minister1_pfo = |minister2_name = |minister2_pfo = <!-- (etc.) --> |deputyminister1_name = |deputyminister1_pfo = |deputyminister2_name = |deputyminister2_pfo = <!-- (etc.) --> |chief1_name = |chief1_position = |chief2_name = |chief2_position = <!-- (etc.) --> |agency_type = |parent_department = |parent_agency = |child1_agency = [[Civil Works Administration]] (CWA) |child2_agency = <!-- (etc.) --> |keydocument1 = <!-- (etc.) --> |website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> |footnotes = |map = |map_width = |map_caption = }} The '''Federal Emergency Relief Administration''' ('''FERA''') was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the '''Emergency Relief Administration''' ('''ERA'''). President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] had created it in 1933. FERA was created from the Federal Emergency Relief Act. In 1935, it was replaced by the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). From May 1933 until December 1935, FERA gave states and cities $3.1 billion (the equivalent of $55.4 billion in 2017).<ref>Trowbridge, D.J. (2016). ''A History of the United States: 1865 to present.'' Asheville, NC: Soomo Learning. h