Report on Progress of the Wpa Program: June 30, 1939 (Classic Reprint)

F. C. Harrington, Corrington Gill

ISBN 10: 1333143230 / ISBN 13: 9781333143237

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Beschreibung

Print on Demand. This book offers a comprehensive look at the Work Projects Administration (WPA), a major program created in 1935 during the Great Depression to combat widespread unemployment. The author provides a detailed examination of the WPAââ â ¢s operations, including its primary goals, organizational structure, and the types of projects it undertook. The book explores the interplay between the WPA and broader economic conditions, demonstrating how the program expanded and contracted in response to fluctuations in unemployment. The author delves into the programââ â ¢s effectiveness in providing jobs and improving public infrastructure, while also highlighting the complexities of managing a program of such scale during a period of great economic hardship. Through the lens of the WPA, this book offers a unique perspective on the challenges of social and economic change, underscoring the role government initiatives played in alleviating suffering and promoting recovery during one of the nationââ â ¢s most trying periods. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titel: Report on Progress of the Wpa Program: June 30, 1939 (Classic Reprint)
• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1333143230
• ISBN-13: 9781333143237
• Bindung: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Buchtyp: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from Report on Progress of the Wpa Program: June 30, 1939

Renamed the Work Projects Administration and made a part of the Federal Works Agency as of July 1, 1939, through Reorganiza tion Plan N o. 1, the wpa has continued to provide project work for large numbers of the country's unemployed. In covering the period prior to the reorganization, this report deals with the activities of the Works Progress Administration, as such, giving particular eni phasis to the year ending on June 30, 1939. As many as persons were working at the peak of the year's activities on projects operated with wpa funds and at the end of June 1939 a total of persons were so employed.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.