WPA

The WPA: Digging America Out of the Whole

 * The Work Progress (WPA) was establishe****d i****n 1935 by executive order o****f** **President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and survived late 1943. In 1939 the Works Program Administration changed it's name to the Work Project Administration. It was created when unemployment was widespread, the WPA headed by Harry L. Hopkins until 1938 was designed to increase millions of workers across America to perform public works projects. WPA's building program included the construction of 116,000 buildings, 78,000 bridges, and 651,000 miles of road and the improvement of 800 airports.**
 * WPA was made during the Great Depression which was a huge time that people of all over the country was unemployed. The unemployment was at it's highest point which was 12 million unemployed Americans. The main thrust of the WPA projects had to be directed toward semiskilled and unskilled citizens, whom the Great Depression had hit the hardest. The woman's also worked and the Woman Division asked equal pay and gave women influence beyond their 12 to 19 percent enrollment. The WPA also inspired the black Urban League to declare the discrimination had been kept to a minimum. The 350,000 black employed annually constituted 15 percent of all persons in the program, a percentage half again as great as the number of black in society, though less than their proportion of the unemployed. The WPA Education Program raised many thousands of black recipient to literacy and trained thousands more to be skilled craftsmen and teachers.**


 * Until ended by Congress and war employment during the 1943, the WPA was the largest employer in the country. Most people needed a job were eligible for at least some of its jobs, Hourly wages ere the prevailing wages in each area; the rules said could not work more than 30 hour a week, but many projects included months in the feilds, with works eating and sleeping on work sits. Before 1940, there was some training involved to teach new skills and the project's original legislation had a strong emphasis on training.**




 * The Works Progress Administration was the the Largest New Deal Agency, employing millions to carry out public work projects. The WPA is one of the more important Organizations that came about around this time. This organization fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. Almost every community in the United States had a park, bridge, or school constructed by the agency, which especially benefited rural and Western population. This organization helped bring America out of the Great Depression and who knows without this Administration America may still be in or still be recovering from the Great Depression.**


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