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Works Progress Administration

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Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration Work Projects Administration (WPA), former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration; it was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, when it was made part of
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The current courthouse is split between the historic building on Spring Street, built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration, and the adjacent Roybal Federal Building, which houses the bankruptcy proceedings.
By 1933, California adult education, in its typical response to national social issues, was involved in Works Progress Administration (WPA)-funded programs, including literacy, vocational training and parent education.
Consider the incredible accomplishments of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration in putting millions of the unemployed to work during the Depression.
 
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