While comparisons to past decades and former presidents have been a bit overplayed of late, especially around the inauguration, bear with us a moment while we mention the dark days of the 1930s again.

Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from 1935-1943, leaving a lasting legacy.

WPA put unemployed people to work at useful public projects, gave them paycheck. Thomas Domboski stands near the Toby Creek ponding area just off Union Street in Luzerne, a WPA project from the 1930s ...

The Works Progress Administration provided jobs to 8.5 million Americans between 1935 and 1943 during the Great Depression and the first years of World War II. Jobs ranged from graveling city streets ...

When Congress set up WPA four years ago, friends of union labor saw to it that union hourly wage scales, as prevailing in different sections of the U. S., were provided for skilled workmen. Thus, if ...

As the coronavirus pandemic drastically undermines the economy, arts administrator Deana Haggag finds herself in brand new territory. Haggag, the president and CEO of United States Artists (USA), told ...

I keep hearing people in the media and even some politicians say that the government cannot create jobs - that only the private sector can create jobs. (President Obama is even talking about giving ...

Today brings another installment of “there is too interesting and nontrivial scholarship in today’s scholarly history journals,” this one drawn from the flagship journal of US history. The article ...

The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

The deadliest ammunition which Republicans have yet received for sniping at Democrats with charges that Relief is being used for the meanest kind of political purposes has been furnished them by West ...