A Wpa For The Eighties
April, 1983
Depressions just aren't what they used to be. As our wise leaders ponder the economic situation, more and more of them agree that the idea of putting some of the nation's 12,000,000 unemployed to work in a new version of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration is virtually irresistible. But when those advocates of a new WPA get specific, they tend to mention such uninspiring jobs as filling potholes and cleaning sewers.During the original WPA era, millions went to work on loftier t...
