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Paperback The WPA: Creating Jobs and Hope in the Great Depression Book

ISBN: 113882092X

ISBN13: 9781138820920

The WPA: Creating Jobs and Hope in the Great Depression

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Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs programs ever created in the U.S. At its peak, the program provided work for almost 3.5 million Americans, employing more than 8 million people across its eight-year history in projects ranging from constructing public buildings and roads to collecting oral histories and painting murals. The story of the WPA...

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