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He instituted programs like the W.P.A. and the C.C.C. which took hundreds of thousands of people off the breadlines and put them in jobs that benefitted the entire infrastructure of America.

The Sunday Word: Obama Raises Jobs Target - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Presently a talk for schools upon the work of the W.P.A. in reducing distress in South Carolina penetrated his consciousness and took his mind from the submarine.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

On a warm mid-December day in 2000, I was standing in a long line at Terminal Annex, the old W.P.A. post office in Los Angeles.

Gordy Grundy: Christmas of Cool: The Peter Norton Family Christmas Art Project Gordy Grundy 2010

To report that story, Wilkerson became something of a one-woman W.P.A. project.

'True Prep,''Freedom,' And A Graphic Memoir: Book Review Roundup 2010

On a warm mid-December day in 2000, I was standing in a long line at Terminal Annex, the old W.P.A. post office in Los Angeles.

Gordy Grundy: Christmas of Cool: The Peter Norton Family Christmas Art Project Gordy Grundy 2010

From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve.

Faire Matthew Guerrieri 2007

There would be accusations that the government was creating make-work jobs, but the W.P.A. left many solid achievements in its wake.

How Not To Increase Employment 2009

So clean was FDR's Works Progress Administration, writes Krugman, that when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it...

EconLog: Fiscal Policy Archives 2009

“Perhaps such a thing is politically impossible now — Glenn Beck would describe anything like the Works Progress Administration as a plan to recruit pro-Obama brownshirts — but we should note, for the record, that at their peak, the W.P.A. and the Civilian Conservation Corps employed millions of Americans, at relatively low cost to the budget.”

Mr. Pass Health Care with the Public Option Now Wants Congress to Pay for Jobs - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009

From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve.

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