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Works Progress AdministrationThe Works Progress Administration (or WPA), created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034, was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency. It was a make work program that provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression. Many WPA projects provided jobs to construction workers, although artists and writers also benefited from the agency. Famous WPA projects include:
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