WPA
- Work Projects Administration: the former federal agency (1935–43) charged with instituting and administering public works in order to relieve national unemployment.Originally Works Progress Administration.
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Contemporary Examples
For example, the bookmobile was a WPA program—old bread and milk trucks full of nailed-up shelves.
James Lee Burke Talks About His Fiction, History, and the American DreamDavid Masciotra
July 20, 2014
We have these amazing parks that were park of the WPA in the 1930s.
The first trails at the area were cut by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the winter of 1936.
The architecture of the WPA had a very distinct, and very consistent, aesthetic: austere Art Deco, bordering on the monolithic.
Obama's Building Boom: Will His Architecture Legacy Be as Lasting as FDR's?Ian Volner
January 4, 2011
Historical Examples
Much of her ability to read has been gained from attendance in recent years in WPA "opportunity classes" in the city.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesWork Projects Administration
WPA
- Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration
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Word Origin and History for wpa
WPA
1936, initialism from Works Progress Administration, U.S. agency established 1935.
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