WPA

Chris Lin, Justin Lin, Anuj Dave

HISTORY
Established in April 1935
Headed by Harry L. Hopkins
Formed to help decrease unemployment rates
Give a man a dole, and you save his body
and destroy his spirit. Give him a job and you
save both his body and spirit.-Harry L.
Hopkins

BENEFITS
Employed > 8
million people
Built 125,000
public
buildings/facilities
Built 651,000
miles of road
Sewed 300 million
garments

DRAWBACKS
Cost 11 billion
Funded by defi cit
spending
Funded the arts
while many were
still starving

FAMOUS PROJECTS

La Guardia Airport

Timberline Lodge

San
Antonio
Riverwalk

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