The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: libertybele on May 06, 2021, 06:45:18 pm
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May 06, 1935
FDR creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
On May 6, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before. The WPA, the Public Works Administration (PWA) and other federal assistance programs put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone. ...........
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