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On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration. The WPA was one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act. The WPA, the Public Works Administration and other federal assistance programs put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone. Jobs ranged ... Read More
(History.com)
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