Honors History Blog#3

WPA...
I would like to bring the Work Progress Administration to the modern society. The Work Progress Administration, or WPA, was the largest New Deal program at its time before it was ended around the start of WWII. It supplied jobs to the unemployed and had public works projects, and media, art, drama, and literacy projects. It paid its workers hourly wage, no more than 30 hours per week. During its time it fed children, and redrestributed food and clothing to the unemployed. Educational works helped benefit rural states.

I picked this plan because it would give more opportunities to unemployed families and could reduce the growing poverty level in the country. This would help the economy in many ways considering that this program played a large part in the New Deal programs during the Great Depression. This program would be a massive employer, having simple steps to being hired. Idealistically, it could help shape America for better, improving roads, cleaning neighborhoods, and reshaping the environment.

Modernizing this act could work if the jobs assigned to workers included production of goods used in society, like medical supplies for hospitals and other simple goods that could be made without need of experience. Public works such as building roads, repairing roads, and the construction of buildings could be used to help create jobs and keep the unemployed employed with work. Cleaning projects could also be issued, sweeping streets and making American cities better. This work could be channeled to improve America, wherever low cost jobs are missing.