Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia In 1942, the WPA played a key role in both building and staffing internment camps to incarcerate Japanese Americans At its peak in 1938, it supplied paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration
Works Progress Administration: WPA New Deal - HISTORY The WPA was designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans At its height in late 1938, more than 3 3 million Americans worked for the WPA
Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA] Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA] in the holdings of the U S National Archives and Records Administration From the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the U S
Works Progress Administration (WPA) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas The Works Progress Administration (WPA), later called the Work Projects Administration, was the largest and best known of the federal work relief programs established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat unemployment and stimulate a national economy ravaged by the Great Depression