On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration. The agency was responsible for one of the many relief programs set up ...

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 ...

On this day in 1935, Congress agreed to establish the Works Progress Administration, a core element of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, an effort to bolster the then-moribund U.S ...

In "WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the ... times between the world wars," Maresca said via email. "Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal changed the aesthetic face of America and introduced ...

In 1935, the Works Progress Administration was formed to provide jobs and steady income to Americans during the Great Depression. Millions working under the WPA banner built public buildings ...

Yet, when asked by Gallup in the very same poll to identify “the worst thing the Roosevelt administration has done,” the No. 1 answer was the same New Deal program: the WPA. How could the same ...

"The Roosevelt administration had a cabinet of African ... Indeed, it's difficult to quantify the ongoing benefits of the WPA's arts programs. Its murals still decorate city halls, post offices ...