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    • 50 Ratings
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    The Most Inspiring Work of Art I Have Ever Seen

    OCTOBER 3, 2011 6:36PM

    By Miguela Holt y Roybal


    Topics: public art, enmu, ecclesiastes, wpa art, wpa, lloyd moylan

    • 2 Ratings
    • 600 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Jared Bernstein on WPA Style Programs

    MAY 31, 2011 10:38PM

    By Sean Fenley


    Topics: jared bernstein, krugman, wpa, leadership

    • 0 Ratings
    • 184 Views
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    Did You See My Chicken?

    APRIL 4, 2011 2:30PM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: animals, books, comedy, environment, family, food/drink, open+call, sandy powers, great depression, pwa, wpa, president roosevelt, chicken soup, communal water pump, pot belly stove, poor folks, dinner, farm shed, chicken farm

    • 24 Ratings
    • 502 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    I am a slut

    MARCH 3, 2011 11:17AM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: lyn lejeune, elijah rising, dorothea lange, wpa, rudy vallee, mark twain, marlene dietrich, franklin roosevelt, dust bowl, slut, twitter, tweet, os, open salon

    • 0 Ratings
    • 268 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    It's Jobs and then it's Jobs and after that it's Jobs

    JULY 10, 2010 2:05PM

    By Ramonas Voices


    Topics: wpa, unemployment, robert reich, pwa, new deal, michelle obama, les leopold, jobs, harry hopkins, fdr, elizabeth warren, eleanor roosevelt, ccc, barack obama, andy grove

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 7805 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Double Dip: Will We Repeat 1937?

    MARCH 4, 2010 8:38AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: federal deficit, does pursuit of self-interest improve society?, john reed, john bogle, keynesians, paul volker, economic meltdown, mortgage crisis, foreclosures, unemployment, jobs, bill clinton, disenfranchised patriots, glass-steagall, jim bunning, wayback machine, sarah palin, mitt romney, ron paul, tim pawlenty, goldman sachs, bank bailouts, aig, tea party, cato institute, tarp, stimulus, commonwealth club of california, andrew leonard, larry summers, barack obama, nobel laureate in economics, dr. joseph stiglitz, recession of 1937, roosevelt, wpa, great depression, double dip recession, business, politics, finance, economics, roosevelt recession of 1937

    • 0 Ratings
    • 351 Views
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    Load Up The Truck Pa, We're Movin To 中国 !

    FEBRUARY 27, 2010 11:19AM

    By Robert Stack


    Topics: young man, wpa, unskilled labor, unemployment, stimulus, new california, labor shortage, labor jobs, la jobs, hint hint, helicopter, china, blog

    • 35 Ratings
    • 5474 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    The New Deal WORKED. Deal with it, Neanderthals.

    FEBRUARY 17, 2009 3:24PM

    By Caveat Canem Croceum


    Topics: per capita income, unemployment, wpa, gross domestic product, gdp, economic recovery, neanderthals, neocons, economic history, econometrics, economics, new deal, fdr, stimulus package

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1308 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A Personal Accounting of the New Deal

    FEBRUARY 9, 2009 11:16AM

    By montcalm


    Topics: new deal, wpa, pwa, roosevelt, 1930s, 30s, thirties, economy, economics, architecture, art, north carolina, nc, san francisco, ca, california, oakland, alameda, coit tower, politics, policy, stimulus, obama, mountains, new york

    • 5 Ratings
    • 4561 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    WPA murals

    JANUARY 13, 2009 3:37PM

    By Wayne Gallant


    Topics: wpa, art murals, post office

    • 7 Ratings
    • 772 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    WPA Poster Art - part two

    JANUARY 13, 2009 7:43AM

    By Wayne Gallant


    Topics: art, poster, wpa

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1995 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    WPA Poster Art

    JANUARY 12, 2009 12:07PM

    By Wayne Gallant


    Topics: wpa, art, poster

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 3271 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    Art That Builds Communities

    JANUARY 11, 2009 11:57PM

    By Chicago Guy


    Topics: lobby obama, writers, revive federal writer's project, wpa, give everyone on os big time government money

    • 1 Ratings
    • 460 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Random Thoughts on Corruption and Change

    DECEMBER 9, 2008 1:09PM

    By lgranzyk


    Topics: wpa, rex hobart, otto kerner, npr, illinois, governor, george ryan, gacy, dick durbin, breast reduction, blagojevich, art corps

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1101 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Why not a new WPA to put artists to work?

    DECEMBER 9, 2008 1:52AM

    By Bonnie Bucqueroux


    Topics: depression, public works, obama, works progress administration, wpa

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