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 Deal, put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work building parks, government and public buildings ...

Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation ... sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter Between 1938 and 1941, the WPA produced a series of 14 hand silkscreened promotional posters ...

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 ...

Originally, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order that closed down the county’s WPA on Feb. 1. The WPA received an extension because several projects were deemed vital. The projects ...

Implemented by Dutchess County native and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his WPA initiative to get people back in the workforce following the Great Depression, the program wasn ...