Works Progress Administration

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1935 public works program employing millions of Americans

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Great Depression of 1929 📉💵 | When the American Dr... · 3:11:46 · 24 Aug
…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.…
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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Great Depression of 1929 📉💵 | When the American Dr... · 2:09:56 · 24 Aug
…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.…
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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Great Depression of 1929 📉💵 | When the American Dr... · 2:09:52 · 24 Aug
…The physical infrastructure it created was, by itself, an impressive legacy.…
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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Great Depression of 1929 📉💵 | When the American Dr... · 2:09:24 · 24 Aug
…The Works Progress Administration, which became the Works Projects Administration……
Matty MathesonStavvy's World · Bonus #187 - McDade's Maniacs Vol. 13 w/ Shaunak Godkhindi [... · 8:21 · 2 Jul
…That's why, I mean, the FDR shit where they made……
VelvetBoring History for Sleep · How Single Women Lived in 1930s America — Work, Survival, ... · 2:51:19 · 5 May
…The Works Progress Administration, the WPA, was the broadest of……
Fresh AirThe hidden history of blackface in America · 1:21 · 9 Mar
…During his presidency, he created the WPA, the Works Progress……
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