Works Progress Administration
type: Thing
type: Agent
type: SocialPerson
type: Q24229398
type: Q327333
type: Q43229
type: Organisation
type: Organization
different from: Public Works Administration
different from: Works Progress Administration (band)
label: 公共事業促進局 @ja
label: 公共事业振兴署 @zh
label: Управление промышленно-строительными работами общественного назначения @ru
label: Work Projects Administration @fr
label: 공공사업진흥국 @ko
location: New York (state)
location: New York City
budget: 1.3E9
description: United States government New Deal agency (1935–1939) employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects
description: Ehemalige Bundesbehörde in den USA @de
description: وكالة حكومية أمريكية سابقة @ar
description: ancienne agence du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis, fondée par Franklin D. Roosevelt @fr
description: Usona registara organizaĵo (1935–1943) @eo
description: ארגון ממשלתי אמריקאי מתקופת הניו דיל @iw
description: vladni organ Združenih držav Amerike v času New Deala (1935–1939), ki je zaposlil milijone brezposelnih pri izvajanju projektov javnih del @sl
description: federalt program i USA @sv
description: voormalige Amerikaanse overheidsdienst @nl
dissolution date: 1943-06-30
dissolution year: 1943
formation date: 1935-05-06
formation year: 1935
headquarter: New York (state)
headquarter: New York City
number of employees: 3
number of employees: 9
number of employees: 1935
subject: Category:Defunct agencies of the United States government
subject: Category:Government agencies established in 1935
subject: Category:Government agencies disestablished in 1943
subject: Category:1935 establishments in Washington, D.C.
subject: Category:1943 disestablishments in Washington, D.C.
subject: Category:Former United States Federal assistance programs
subject: Category:History of the government of the United States
subject: Category:New Deal agencies
subject: Category:Works Progress Administration
subject: Category:Work relief programs
subject: Category:Great Depression in the United States
agency name: Works Progress Administration
picture: WPA-USA-sign.svg
preceding: Federal Emergency Relief Administration
keydocument: Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
align: left
align: right
caption: Timberline Lodge
caption: Griffith Observatory
caption: Typical plaque on a WPA project
caption: --04-28
date: 2012-12-05
direction: vertical
dissolved: 1943-06-30
employees: 3300000
employees: 85000001935
formed: 1935-05-06
headquarters: New York City, NY, U.S.
image: FDR-April-28-1935-side.jpg
image: Timberline Lodge 2014.jpg
image: WPAsign.JPG
image: Harry-Hopkins-WPA-November-1935.jpg
image: Griffith Observatory on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park .tif
url: https://archive.today/20121205075827/http:/www.wpamurals.com/
width: 220