The Birth of the New Deal and the Rise of the WPA

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The Birth of the New Deal and the Rise of the WPA

<img src="http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media//59/159559-050-C1D6D9D6.jpg" width="216" height="270" class align="right" />Eighty years ago, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt worked around the clock with Congress to create a vast federal program to combat the Great Depression in the United States. Roosevelt's "New Deal" created an alphabet soup of new agencies, from the FDIC to the NRA to the SEC to the TVA, one of whichâ€"the WPAâ€"remains both well known and popular. Step inside for more on the birth of that transformative institution.

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