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The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
The Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.It was a large public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, the Resettlement Administration, the Rural Electrification Administration, and other assistance programs. [1]
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Renamed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; see Department of Health and Human Services, above; Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA or Sallie Mae) Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government. Foreign Economic Administration (FEA)
The Historical Records Survey (HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States. Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives. The official mission statement was the "discovery ...
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was allowed under the 1924 Clarke–McNary Act and was carried out by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). [2] Project headquarters were in Lincoln, Nebraska, [6] and Raphael Zon served as the technical director. The U.S. Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps assisted. [7] "The Shelterbelt Program of ...
Works Progress Administration workers (3 C, 109 P) WPA Moderne architecture (5 P) Pages in category "Works Progress Administration" The following 32 pages are in this ...
A US government poster from 1940 summarizing the Works Progress Administration's achievements. Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.