The Works Progress Administration was a work program for the unemployed that was created in 1935 under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. While critics called the WPA an extension of the dole or a device for creating a huge patronage army loyal to the Democratic Party, the stated purpose of the program was to provide useful work for millions of victims of the Great Depression and thus to preserve their skills and self-respect. The economy would in turn be stimulated by the increased purchasing power of the newly employed, whose wages under the program ranged from $15 to $90 per month. Encyclopedia Britannica - Works Progress Administration http://www.britannica.com (Retrieved September 30, 2009)
The collection consists of sets of type-written (carbon copy) reports that were collected or produced by the Survey of County and Municipal Affairs, a project undertaken in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration of Georgia. The reports include audit reports, financial reports and narrative reports for counties and cities in Georgia.
