The WPA Is Established (1935)
Part of US President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program, the Works Progress—later Projects—Administration aimed to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression and preserve the skills and self-respect of unemployed persons by providing them useful work. By the time it was terminated in 1943, the WPA had employed 8.5 million people and funded the construction of roads, buildings, bridges, parks, and airports—as well as the production of art. What did critics pejoratively call the WPA? More… Discuss
Published on Apr 17, 2012
As President Roosevelt presides over the creation of new federal agencies to combat the effects of the Depression, nowhere is the effect of new public works projects more apparent than in Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia‘s New York City. Though FDR, the American aristocrat, and LaGuardia, the son of immigrants, are unlikely partners, together they expand and redefine the role of government in people’s lives.
- The Living New Deal Project (misspreservation.com)
- WPA National Park Posters (jadeandceladon.wordpress.com)
- Massive 500-Poster Mosaic: the Library of Congress WPA Poster Collection, 1935-1943 (longstreet.typepad.com)
- What if more Americans worked from home? (zdnet.com)
- Fun With Propaganda! (misinvention.com)
- Memo to the President and First Lady: Channel Eleanor Roosevelt Not the One Percent (wallstreetonparade.com)
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