The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for
unemployed, unmarried men from relief families
as part of the New Deal... Maximum
enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).