The WPA, which did not arrive in the first year or even the second year of the New Deal, was part of what some called "the second New Deal," legislated in 1935. By then, FDR had been in office for ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

but the WPA paid artists a living wage, says Ann Prentice Wagner, who co-curated the 2009 Smithsonian exhibition 1934: A New Deal For Artists. Musicians, writers and other artists were hired at ...

The WPA was part of the New Deal agencies, the name given to the close to 40 Federal agencies created by Franklin Roosevelt’s administration during the 1930s as a way to combat the Great Depression.

Rhinecliff artist Joseph Maresca has authored his first book that features the buildings and art of the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s. In "WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of ...

About 3 million workers toiled for the WPA, mostly men. Among other things, these workers built 5,900 new schools; 9,300 new auditoriums, 1,000 new libraries and 900 new armories. They built post ...

Yet, when asked by Gallup in the very same poll to identify “the worst thing the Roosevelt administration has done,” the No. 1 answer was the same New Deal program: the WPA. How could the same ...

Long before "stimulus" became a dirty word in some quarters of Washington, the federal government put people to work building things. Lots of things. This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the ...

(KSWO) - The City of Lawton will be joining hands with the Museum of the Great Plains to host Oklahoma’s 2nd Annual New Deal ... a prominent WPA-era landmark. On the second day, there will ...

according to New Deal historian William Leuchtenberg, "the largest single appropriation by any government in the history of the world." Bold in scope and creative in execution, the WPA was a model ...