The Works Progress Administration: Key to Job Creation During the Depression

Learn how the Works Progress Administration created jobs for 8.5 million Americans, revolutionizing employment and infrastructure during the Great Depression.
UPI

On This Day: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
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Works Progress Administration photograph collection

This collection contains 40 black and white photographs ranging in size form 5x7 inches to 8x10 inches. In addition to public works projects on reservations, the Works Progress Administration funded ...
WDBJ

This Day in History: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration was created under an executive order signed by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating the upcoming 250th ...