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    In The 1930s, Works Program Spelled HOPE For Millions Of Jobless Americans

    by Ron Elving Apr 04, 2020 4 minutes

    Mention government financing public works projects and sooner or later someone's going to bring up the Works Progress Administration.

    That conjures scenes from the 1930s, the breadlines and soup kitchens and the wan-faced men selling apples on the street. And also the image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man elected president in 1932 promising a "New Deal" to end the Great Depression.

    Much of our popular memory of the New Deal pictures millions of jobless Americans going to work for the government and building roads, bridges, schools, airports and other public works. And while that was far from being all the New Deal did, it

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