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GRASP Performance Task

 Title: "WPA Investigation"

During the 1930s the Works Projects Administration (WPA) initiated a variety of local employment and relief projects throughout the United Sates. Perhaps more than any single New Deal agency, the WPA directly affected the lives, as well as the environment, of millions of Americans.

As a federal government employee of the 1930s, you have been assigned the task to investigate the WPA and create a detailed report to determine if the U.S. government should continue implementing the Works Projects Administration. The President and our government needs this report to determine if we should continue with this New Deal Plan. Your report must include a program-by program description of the WPA. Explain how the federal government provided work through the WPA. Identify the specific groups aided by the WPA with descriptions of the aid offered. Describe the kinds of people aided by the WPA. Why did the federal government help them? Identify economic problems with the solutions that the WPA has provided. Identify which WPA programs seem to have been most effective. What is the evidence to support your answer? Give citizens' reactions (positive and negative) to WPA programs. Add charts and graphs to support your report. You must also include your own critique of the WPA and inform the President and the federal government whether or not we should continue using this New Deal program. (Your written report must be 2-3 pages long.)



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