Works Progress Administration
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United States government New Deal agency (1935–1939) employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects
Wikidata facts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Field of work
- public works
- Country
- United States
- Official language
- English language
- Subsidiary
- Federal Art Project
- Image
- WPA-Work-Pays-America-Poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- Works Progress Administration
- topic's main category
- Category:Works Progress Administration
- inception
- 1935-05-06
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1943-06-30
- short name
- WPA
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