In the 1930s, the public works projects were large-scale projects like building dams and bridges and power plants, and it also provided employment for the masses of unemployed people in America. The Tennessee Valley Authority did just this. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was created to provide relief jobs too, and the Works Progress Administration provided relief to unemployed peoples until they could find jobs. The Social Security Act was another famous one--it was established to provide aid to people with disabilities, seniors, minors, and etc. Hoover also established many large Public Works Projects, but he was afraid that the people would rebel and that it would undermine the people's individual characteristics. He failed to see that those characteristics didn't matter much when the economy was falling apart.
If our society today have a huge public works project, it would have to provide many jobs--hundreds of thousands or millions. And I hear health care is an important topic nowadays too, so that should be worked on too.
Sources:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~fishback/The%20Impact%20of%20Relief%20and%20Public%20Works%20Programs%20on%20Socioeconomic%20Welfare%20During%20the%201930s.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=466
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