Work and a paycheck --The Civilian Conservation Corps focused on creating environmental infrastructure projects.
The CCC employed unmarried, young men both white and black. Men lived on camps and enlisted in the program. Most of the men in the program were from families on assistance. The program provided an opportunity for men to work for real wages and provide the country with needed facilities like dams, parks, and planting trees. The program provided leisure areas as well as replaced nature where industrialization had stripped nature away.