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Hace 4 días · Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935: a national labor program for more than 2 million unemployed; created useful construction work for unskilled men; also sewing projects for women and arts projects for unemployed artists, musicians and writers; ended 1943.
Hace 3 días · An introductory essay for each theme and a contextual explanation for each narrative help readers draw lessons from this vast collection, while an introduction to the work explains the Works Progress Administration's Slave Narrative project--illuminating still another era in American history.
Hace 1 día · Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States.
Hace 4 días · In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt’s administration created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1 an unprecedented national program to boost employment and income.
Hace 2 días · Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) a locally run program to provide jobs to the unemployed by building public services/buildings like bridges and post offices, etc (like the Ridgewood post office) head of WPA. Henry Hopkins. Federal Arts Projects. a part of the WPA that aids arts workers like writers, actors, etc.
Hace 3 días · His retrenchment efforts and the new taxes imposed on liquor and gambling were largely responsible, but many in Arkansas would have suffered had it not been for the massive amount of federal money pouring into the state through the FERA, the AAA, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
