The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a program created by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935 to boost employment and the purchasing power of cash-strapped Americans.

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

The Works Progress Administration program, part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambitious New ... airports and hospitals. The WPA also sponsored thousands of actors, musicians and artists ...

The “Bookwomen,” also known as “book ladies” and “pack saddle librarians,” were librarians of the “Pack Horse Library Project,” a division of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), a program ...

Roosevelt's New Deal and the alphabet soup of agencies it created (notably, the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps) built magnificent, uniquely American campgrounds ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...