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1935
WPA established by Congress
On April 8, 1935, Congress votes to approve the Works Progress
Administration (WPA), a central part of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's "New Deal."
In November 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Governor
Roosevelt of New York was elected the 32nd president of the
United States. In his inaugural address on March 4, 1933,
Roosevelt promised Americans that "the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself" and outlined his New Deal - an expansion of the
federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and
welfare.
In April 1935, the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act, as a means of creating government jobs for
some of the nation's many unemployed. Under the direction of
Harry L. Hopkins, the WPA employed more than 8.5 million persons
on 1.4 million public projects before it was disbanded in 1943.
The program chose work that would not interfere with private
enterprise, especially vast public building projects like the
construction of highways, bridges, and dams. However, the WPA
also provided federal funding for students, who were given work
under the National Youth Administration. The careers of several
important American artists, including Jackson Pollack and Willem
de Kooning, were also launched thanks to WPA endowments. Although
its scale was unprecedented, the WPA never managed to serve more
than a quarter of the nation's unemployed. Its programs were
extremely popular, though, and contributed significantly to
Roosevelt's landslide reelection in 1936.
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