WPA
Works Progress Administration (1935-1943) of the U.S. government, begun under presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The program was the successor to the PWA and included four specific arts divisions: art, music, theater, and writers. It used federal tax funds administered at the state level, and was redefined continually by various acts of Congress. In 1939 renamed the Works Projects Administration. Best-known of all the New Deal initial-ID programs. ()