National Youth Administration
The
National Youth Administration (NYA) was a
New Deal agency in the
United States. It operated from 1935 to 1943 as part of the
Works Progress Administration. The NYA was headed by
Aubrey Williams, a prominent liberal from Alabama who was close to
Harry Hopkins and
Eleanor Roosevelt. The head of the Texas division at one point was
Lyndon B. Johnson.The NYA operated numerous programs for out-of-school youth. Educators in the public school system distrusted it because it seemed to divert federal funds away from schools.
By 1938, it served 327,000 high school and college youth, who were paid from $6 to $40 a month for "work study" projects at their schools. Another 155,000 boys and girls from relief families were paid $10 to $25 a month for part-time work that included job training. Unlike the
CCC, it included young women. The youth normally lived at home, and worked on construction or repair projects. Its annual budget from 1937 to 1938 was approximately $58,000,000.
*
National Commission on Resources for Youth - A government project focused on youth development
*
Lindley, Betty Grimes and Ernest K. Lindley. A New Deal for Youth: The Story of the National Youth Administration (1938)* Meriam; Lewis.
Relief and Social Security The Brookings Institution. 1946. Highly detailed analysis and statistical summary of all New Deal relief programs; 900 pages
* Reiman, Richard.
The New Deal and American Youth (1992)
* Tyack, David et al.
Public Schools in Hard Times (1984)
