Works Progress Administration

…In nineteen thirty seven, he cut federal spending significantly reducing the Works Progress Administration roles, curtailing other relief programs, attempting to demonstrate fiscal responsibility to the conservative critics who had been attacking the New Deal's spending levels for years.…

…But the WPA also funded programs in arts, theatre, music, and writing that produced work of lasting cultural value and that represented the federal government's first sustained engagement with cultural production as a public good worth funding.…

…The physical infrastructure it created was, by itself, an impressive legacy.…