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Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration.

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There is talk of a new New Deal in the air, and even a new Works Progress Administration, with President-elect Obama promising to "put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels.".(The Week)(Brief article) (National Review)

Stop Me if You've Heard This One.(My Turn)(collection of stories about the Great Depression gathered through the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration) (Newsweek)

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Shafted: how the Bush administration reversed decades of progress on mine safety. (Washington Monthly)

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