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Works Progress Administration plaque

Emergency Relief Appropriations Act aka ERAA

• The Great Depression and FDR

Works Progress Administration aka WPA

• March 6, 1933 - FDR creates WPA under the auspices of ERAA
• June 30, 1943 - Terminated by presidential proclamation. (Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard,1995 - New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy) I have been was unable to verify the exact proclamation. Some sources say 1442, others 1943 but looking at a list of FDR proclamations makes no mention of the WPA in 1942 or 1943

Per http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1599.html - WPA employed over 8,500,000 individuals, on 1,410,000 projects, with an average salary of $41.57 a month, spent about $11 billion dollars

Emergency Conservation Work aka ECW

• March 31, 1933 (Congress)
• April 05, 1933 (FDR)

ERA Act

• From Wikipedia's WPA article:

Regarding the Works Progress Administration's legacy, Robert Leighninger asserts that "The agencies of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration had an enormous and largely unrecognized role in defining the public space we now use. 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 half a century later. It is time we recognized this legacy and attempted to comprehend its relationship to our contemporary situation.

Public Works Administration

"Executive Order 9357 - Transferring the Functions of the Public Works Administration to the Federal Works Agency." June 30, 1943. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters,The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database); Olson, James Stuart. Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929–1940. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 0-313-30618-4

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