Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from ...
May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
The White House is framed in the trees under a cloudy sky on March 9, 2025, in Washington. (Getty/J. David Ake) President Donald Trump promised to be a “champion for the American worker,” but his ...
On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration. Created by President Franklin Roosevelt to ...
The Trump administration claims to speak for American workers, but it took away the collective bargaining rights of 1 in every 14 workers protected by a union contract. Protestors gather at a rally ...
American artist Allen Saalburg directs WPA artists at work in a temporary studio at the American Museum of Natural History on murals commissioned for the Arsenal Building in Central Park, New York ...
March is Women’s History Month — that is, if your calendar was printed B.T. (before Trump). The Trump administration seems to be trying to make celebrations related to diversity disappear. And ...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is closing 2025 with a still-evolving image of the team that is going to help steer his government and enact an ambitious agenda to tackle the affordability ...
This collection contains 40 black and white photographs ranging in size form 5x7 inches to 8x10 inches. In addition to public works projects on reservations, the Works Progress Administration funded ...
May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
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