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 ...

Baseball at Night by Russian-born Morris Kantor depicts a dusty contest in West Nyack, New York ... but its better-known successor, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that helped support ...

similar to the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration. Such a jobs guarantee is possible because the transition to a climate-safe, fossil-free economy entails millions of jobs that do not ...

The Works Projects Administration (WPA), originally the Works Progress Administration, was the largest and most ambitious agency in FDR's New Deal. The WPA appropriated 6.7 percent of the country ...

It also increased government employment (Works Progress Administration) and minimum wages (Fair Labor Standards Act). Historians credit the New Deal with some success in reviving the country’s ...

The Works Progress Administration program, part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambitious New Deal, put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work building parks, government and public buildings ...

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 ...