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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s ...
Charles Peters and Timothy Noah have another terrific piece in today's Slate, explaining the difference in how stimulus funding works when it's delivered via privately-contracted infrastructure ...
After the start of the Civil Works program in 1824, Congress and cabinet officials oversaw the Army's involvement in Civil Works projects. Congress authorized projects, appropriated funds ...
ON November 9, 1933, the Civil Works Administration was created by order of the President for the purpose of ‘increasing employment quickly.’ The sum of $400,000,000 was taken from the Public ...
Federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) workers pooled their “meagre income,” said the Berkeley Daily Gazette, to pay an unemployed stone carver to sandblast the inscription.
WASHINGTON – The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announced a formal review of Nationwide Permit 12 for oil or natural gas pipeline activities on March 24. The ...
President Roosevelt today ordered the "prompt liquidation" of the Works Projects Administration, last of a succession of New Deal relief agencies.
Water Infrastructure White House Plan Would Break Up Corps Civil-Works Functions Proposal is one of many organizational changes sought by Trump administration By Tom Ichniowski ...
Justice Department Orders a Halt to Civil Rights Work It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.
These two photographs show Civil Works Administration laborers building trails in the National Zoological Park and constructing a stone wall to hold the trail. The Civil Works Administration was a ...
Civil Works Administration Project workers cutting through a point to eliminate a dangerous curve in a road at the National Zoological Park, November 1933. In the background is the original Buffalo ...