Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034. It was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency. Headed by Harry L. Hopkins, it was a "make work" program that provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression. WPA projects primarily employed blue-collar workers in construction projects across the nation, but also employed white-collar workers and artists on smaller-scale projects, and even ran a circus.
External links
- WPA eTexts from Project Gutenburg
- Posters from the WPA at the Library of Congress
- Database of WPA murals
- Purchase WPA Poster Reproductions
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