Wednesday, December 5, 2012

What did the WPA mean to people?

"...my father immediately got employed in this WPA. This was a godsend. This was the greatest thing. It meant food, you know. Survival, just survival."

--Jane Yoder, a woman who dealt with hunger during the Great Depression, in Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, by Studs Terkel.

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