ocr: Williams, one of the more left- leaning New Dealers, ran the NYA. He organized it: a5 1 decentralized, mostly state-run agency entrusted with two primary tasks. The first was to provide student aid throngh grants, earned by work. The: second was to provide relief or job training to young people who were neither in schooli nor working. Eleanor helped extend NYA benetits to the homeless, transients, and black Aumericans.