Talk:Public Works Administration

Politicized Language
" The PWA headquarters in Washington planned projects, which were built by private construction companies hiring workers on the open market. " Do we really need this neoliberal slant on how the New Deal programs worked?MrSativa (talk) 20:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * it describes exactly how the PWA worked. why is there any "slant"?? Rjensen (talk) 21:42, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Discrepancy
So the PWA was budgeted $33 billion, but only used $6 billion? Mihirgk 23:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

It does actually say $3.3 billion now, but still somethings wrong! Murdochious 09:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Plagiarized
Unfortunately, this article is largely plagiarized from this link: http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/pwa.htm I will try to fix that when I get a chance. --Dan 06:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Works Progress Administration (WPA): WPA was a part of the first New Deal agency that made contracts with private firms for construction of public works. It was created in June 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. It allotted 3.3 billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works as a means of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of American industry. It used government money to build schools, dams, bridges, airports etc. These would be important for people when America would recover and they also provided millions of jobs in the mean time.

Projects
Fort Peck Dam - one of the largest earth-filled dams in the world. Source: Fifty Cents an Hour by Lonnquist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Molly 13s (talk • contribs) 21:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Numbers
Does anyone have actual numbers on how many people the PWA employed in its existence? It would help when comparing the PWA to the WPA and in reports and such. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.16.195.203 (talk) 02:50, 13 April 2011 (UTC)