Works Progress Administration

The unbelievable news was on the radio. You had heard it but you didn’t believe it was true. The stock market had crashed. People were hysterical. The lines at all of the banks were as long as the eye could see. The people living in this time period were just beginning to experience the awful roller coaster their lives would be. In 1929 the Stock Market crashed. which led to the Great Depression. Roosevelt passed the first New Deal in 1933 and it ended in 1935. The Second New Deal started in…

fifteen, one-third were aimed at the working class. These bills provided seven million jobs, protected bank accounts, provided relief programs, and subsidized consumer goods. The working class grew. It grew even more with the passing of the Works Progress Administration act which employed an extra 8 million people. Sometime after 1936, the Wagner Act was put into place to set working hours and minimum wage, and prohibited children under 18 from working. It also acted as a Magna Carta for unions,…

conservation corps, civil works administration, federal housing administration, federal security agency, home owner's loan corporation, national industrial recovery act, public works administration, social security act, Tennessee valley authority, and finally, the works progress administration. The civilian conservation corps (1933-1942) was…

Housing Administration insured bank loans that were distributed to construct new houses and repair old homes. In 1935, Roosevelt helped create the Works Progress Administration to help the unemployed Americans find jobs. In its first year of existence, the WPA helped 3.4 million men and women find jobs in factories and other professions throughout the country. Like the PWA, WPA workers built bridges, roads, and public buildings and a section of the WPA, the National Youth Administration, gave…

An artist is struggling to make a living; she has two children who cannot predict when their next meal is. The artist heard that the WPA (the Works Progress Administration) was funding for the arts as part of a relief program. She was ecstatic to hear she could finally obtain a job to provide for her family. This artist was put in the position of poverty because after WWI, the economy was booming and the American society went through a prosperous period known as the Roaring 20s. In 1929, there…

family incomes. Programs like the National Youth Administration (NYA) gave young people a chance to work for pay to help their families (Doc. 1) . These jobs often helped students afford to continue going to school. Without programs like the NYA, many parents would not have been able to support their families, and their children would not be able to get the education they need. The New Deal also brought about programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that helped provide poor…

Just building the fences help the society, because this makes less work for the people. For this, FDR quote “ Spiritual and moral disintegration: on destructive to the national fiber” meaning, and not just sitting around and lazing your butt doing literally nothing, while spending your money, work ( History ). In other words, he disdains people not working, so Franklin gives them a job. Furthermore, the Work Progress Administration officially went out of the public eye in June 1943 (History).…

of the New Deal was the security it gave to Americans. The Alphabet Agencies served many purposes, but they were all used to help Americans during the aftermath of the depression. One agency known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), employed millions of people to carry out public works projects. The WPA constructed as many as 125,000 government-run buildings, 650,000 miles…

Could you imagine the United States with people dying of starvation, no job opportunities with millions unemployed, houses being sold, and no way to receive money from the banks? That’s how the United States was during the Great Depression. The Great Depression started in 1929 when the U.S. stock market crashed. Chaos broke out and everyone was freaking out as to why the banks were closed. People were quickly depositing money out of the banks, and items, like cars and homes, were being sold for…

stock market crash, severe unemployment, poverty, the Dust Bowl, creation of the New Deal, and the less distinguished Second New Deal, under the courageous President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There has been many disagreements about the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act, which are key programs in the Second New Deal. The main arguments against the WPA are that it hired lazy people, spent too much money, and was a political scheme. The main problem with the SSA was its…