Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Work Progress Adminstration (WPA)
WPA, Work Progress Administration, was a part of the New Deal programs that provided relief to the Great Depression period. It was considered one of the largest and most ambitious of all the programs that were made. It also employed millions of unemployed men, mostly unskilled, to work on government projects, construction of public buildings or roads, and etc. Around 3 million people were employed for these jobs at first, and at the end of WPA, it had employed over 8.5 million people. The program employed many different people with different talents, such as skills in music, performing, arts, media, and etc. By the time WPA was nearing its end of use, almost every community in US had either a new park, bridge, or school that was constructed by WPA alone. This helped millions of people with their employment status, to remain in jobs, for 8 years, keeping them with stable enough incomes to help out their families. It was mainly divided into divisions, which included engineering and construction, professional and service projects, finance, information, investigation, statistics, project control, employment, management, safety, supply, and training and reemployment.
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I think the information you provided above is very good and I would like to add in about the main issues leading to why it faced criticism from especially conservatives. Much of the criticism of the distribution of projects and funding allotment is a result of the view that these decisions were mainly thought to be politically motivated. In the South, as the poorest region of America at the time, received 75 percent less in federal relief and public works funds per capita when compared with the west. With this, the critics pointed out that President Roosevelt took priority in the west as he had guaranteed voting support from the South, thus prioritizing it less.
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