Archive for September, 2011

Like WPA Before, Recovery Act to Leave Lasting Public Good

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Moynihan Station (Moynihan Station Dev. Corp.) From the start, people have likened the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as “the stimulus”, to the New Deal’s famous public works program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) started in 1935.1 2 3 Over its eight years, the WPA hired eight million people to work […]

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