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Times Topics: The Works Progress Administration
URL: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/works_progress_administration/index.html

Description:
Collection of news, photos, and other material about the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was "launched by President Franklin Roosevelt in his third year in office, [and] was the largest jobs initiative the United States has ever seen. It was the signature program of the New Deal." Includes interactive graphics, slide shows, and stories about topics such as the WPA murals and the Federal Writers' Project. From The New York Times.

LII Topics: The New Deal, United States History

Publisher:
The New York Times Company

Extra Keywords
FDR E Clampus Vitus Great Depression

LII Database Information:
Record 27544 created by Jennifer English on 12/16/2008
Last modification on 09/15/2009
Published: 01/15/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27544

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