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| To ease unemployment during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935. Called the Work Projects Administration after 1939, the WPA employed 9 million people in various public works projects between 1935 and 1943. | ||||||
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| United States (Government); United States (History); Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania); Great Depression in the United States; Work Projects Administration; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; New Deal; United States (Economy) | ||||||
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