On this day in 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Progress Administration. It was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA supplied paid jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while building up the public infrastructure of the US, such as parks, schools, roads, and drains. Most of the jobs were in construction, building more than 620,000 miles (1,000,000 km) of streets and over 10,000 bridges, in addition to many airports and much housing.
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. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA employed 8.5 million people (about half the population of New York).[3] Hourly wages were typically kept well below industry standards. It tried to supply one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.
In one of its most famous projects, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1] The five projects dedicated to these were the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of immense importance to American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout the United States and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.
In a short period of ten years, the Public Works Administration, the Works Progress Administration, and the Civilian Conservation Corps built facilities in practically every community in the country. Most are still providing service.
Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, preparing to give a national address.
Good protein!!
MAGA?
left over from Cinco de Mayo…
Introducing myself to my new neighbors…
Thanks, Debra
Bada Bing!
Yard sale… Me: How much for the angry lawn gnome? Yard sale lady: That’s my toddler.
As an outsider, what are your views on intelligence.
I wish I lacked common sense, you seem so happy.
You state the obvious with such a sense of discovery.
It’s interesting how you never let facts get in the way of your opinion.
I admire your courage to speak in the absence of knowledge.
Between you and me, one of us is smarter than you.
The acoustics in your head must be incredible.
You have the unshakable confidence that usually comes with competence.
I love how much smarter I feel with I walk away from a conversation with you.
I guess common sense isn’t a flower that blooms in every garden.
You might be the only person I’ve ever met that has reached their full potential.
A defense attorney was questioning an eyewitness of a crime that took place at night. The attorney tries to discredit the witness by asking him, “Just how far can you see at night?”. The man says, “Well.., I can see the moon, how far is that?”
Melania’s documentary had a score of 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website named after her husband’s testicles.
I helped a Nazi cover-up their swastika tattoo today. Looking at it now you’d never know it was there, pretty wild what six feet of dirt can do.
I ran out of clean socks. So I piled the dirty socks on a tray, grabbed the detergent and headed to the laundromat down the block, a steep hill. As I was walking down the hill, I slipped and fell. The dirty socks went flying, the detergent went flying and there I was, sitting on the sock by the tray, watching the Tide roll away.
I thank the universe every day that I wasn’t born dumb enough, evil enough, insecure enough, and hateful enough to have grown up to become a Trump supporter.
The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years despite not having brains gives hope to many people.
I might not put the sparkle in your eyes but I’ll definitely put the “WTF” wrinkles in your forehead.
“You wouldn’t hate Trump if he was a Democrat.” Dude, Donald Trump was a Democrat for most of his life and we hated him so much he had to switch parties to get supporters.
If you believe that teaching about god in public schools will improve people’s morality, you first need to explain why it doesn’t work in a church.
Today is the birthday, in 1945, of American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist Bob Seger, who scored the 1977 hit ‘Night Moves’, the 1987 US No.1 single ‘Shakedown’, taken from the film Beverly Hills Cop II, and the 1995 hit single ‘We’ve Got Tonight’. Seger has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7cSSKnkL4
