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 (WPA) was introduced in 1935 by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to provide jobs and income to the growing population of unemployed in the United States.

Mention government financing public works projects and sooner or later someone's going to bring up the Works Progress Administration. That conjures scenes from the 1930s, the breadlines and soup ...

Nothing makes more sense, for example, than reviving programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), started in the 1935, as well as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), begun in 1933.

The WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA) in Cleveland provided needed income for a substantial portion of the city's population as well as improving and developing the area's transportation network, ...

The Works Progress Administration. Sandra Opdycke of Vassar College’s Institute for Innovation in Social Policy explained the history of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which gave ...

In the 1930s, the U.S. government created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide government-funded jobs for millions of unemployed workers building roads, hospitals, and other public ...

Works Progress Administration Summary In 1937, the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Airways and Airports Division organized an airport inspection trip to review work undertaken at various ...

A Works Progress Administration carving near a bridge in Pittsburgh's Panther Hollow. The federal program helped build a lot of the stonework and other structures in the city's parks. Katie ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Botanical Garden held its 15th Works Progress Administration (WPA) Garden Heritage celebration on Sunday. The annual celebration honors the 220 African American women and ...

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 ...