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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, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
La Works Progress Administration o WPA era la principal agencia instituida en el marco del New Deal. Se creó el 6 de mayo de 1935 por una orden presidencial (lo financió el Congreso, pero no lo estableció).
13 de jul. de 2017 · The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression.
8 de may. de 2024 · Works Progress Administration, work program for the unemployed that was created in 1935 under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The stated purpose of the program was to provide useful work for millions of victims of the Great Depression and thus to preserve their skills and self-respect.
Learn about the history, functions, and records of the WPA and its predecessors, which provided jobs to unemployed workers on public projects during the Great Depression. Find out how to access the records of the WPA and its projects, such as Federal Art, Music, Theatre, and Writers' Projects.
La WPA (Works Progress Administration), 1935-1942, fue uno de los programas de más dimensión y de más influencia perteneciente de los programas "New Deal" (El nuevo compromiso), durante la era de la depresión económica norteamericana, proporcionando un promedio anual de dos millones de empleos.
4 de abr. de 2020 · Much of our popular memory of the New Deal pictures millions of jobless Americans going to work for the government and building roads, bridges, schools, airports and other public works.
