(the) Works Progress Administration
- (the) Works Progress Administration
the Works Progress Administration [the Works Progress Administration] (abbr the WPA
)
a US government programme
(1935–43
) established by President Franklin D
Roosevelt as part of his ↑
New Deal. Its name was later changed to the Works Projects Administration. It created millions of jobs for unemployed people during the ↑
Great Depression, mainly in building and the ↑
arts.
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