REA
Rural Electrification Administration
What is this program?
This is just one of many new deal agencies created under President Franklin Roosevelt. The REA ( Rural Electrification Administration) was created on May 11, 1930 to provide public utilities ( electricity, telephone, water, sewer ).
Has this program helped?
Rumors are that the program was some what a help for providing electric services.
Has this program been successful?
In certain ways in has been a success because its main purpose is to provide the public with electricity which has been its number one goal since the beginning and it has done with goal.
Does this program still exist?
Unfortunately the program was abolished in 1994 and the functions it once did was replaced by the Rural Utilities Service
Rural Electrification Administration Documentary
This video will explain our history and give a better inside look at REA.