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Procuratio Progressus Operum

Usitatum signum de proposito procurationis.

Procuratio Progressus Operum[1] fuit maxima et assiduissima Negotii Novi procuratio Americana, quae milliones hominum quaestu carentes (plerumque viros imperitos) conduxit ut rationes operum publicorum efficerent,[2] inter quas aedificia et viae publicae construendae. Propositum Foederalis Numerus Unus, propositum minus sed clarius, musicos, artifices, scriptores, histriones, et directores conduxit in magnis artium, dramatis, mediorum, et alphabetismi propositis.[2]

Propositum viarium a procuratione perfectum.
Folium murale conductiones et actiones Propositi Artis Foederalis die 1 Novembris 1936 summatim describit.

Paene omne oppidulum in Civitatibus Foederatis novum hortum publicum, novum pontem, vel novam scholam a procuratione constructam habuit. Prima procurationis appropriatio anno 1935 fuit $4.9 billiones (circa 6.7 centesimae proventus domestici grossi eodem anno), sed operarii procurationis $13.4 billiones impendit.[3]

Summa agitatione anno 1938, quaestum tribus millionibus virorum et mulierum suppeditavit, cum iuvenibus quoque in Procuratione Iuvenum Nationali, parte separata. Harrio Hopkins duce, procuratio opera et quaestum hominbibus quaestu carentibus dedit per Magnam Depressionem Oeconomicam in Civitatibus Foederatis. Ab die 6 Maii 1935 ad 30 Iunii 1943, paene octo milliones operum suppeditavit.[4] Robert D. Leighninger affirmat:

The stated goal of public building programs was to end the depression or, at least, alleviate its worst effects. Millions of people needed subsistence incomes. Work relief was preferred over public assistance (the dole) because it maintained self-respect, reinforced the work ethic, and kept skills sharp.[5]

  1. Anglice Works Progress Administration, ex anno 1939 nominata Work Projects Administration.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eric Arnesen, ed. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History (2007), 1:1540.
  3. Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956 (2006), 87.
  4. "WPA Archives". Colorado.gov .
  5. Leighninger, Robert D. "Cultural Infrastructure: The Legacy of New Deal Public Space." Journal of Architectural Education 49, no. 4 (1996).

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