History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1534 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Works Progress Administration
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The idea
The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of nineteen thirty-five, four point eight billion dollars and the largest single expenditure yet, created the Works Progress Administration.
In practice
Roosevelt's aim, in the Yawp's quotation: the maximum number of persons in the shortest time possible.
Where people slip
The anchor counts over eight million employed in all, paid, Digital History says, a security wage below union scales.
Your place on the trail
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