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Record of the ''Boondogglers"
Wechsler, James | December 18, 1937 issue

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This article focuses on the working of U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA). According to the author, since its inception this agency has endured remorseless attack. Its critics endeavored from the first to present the unemployed as a shiftless, lazy, inept throng beaten in fair competition. Boondoggling was the inflammatory epithet for their activities that went echoing through the Union League Club. Newspaper photographs of men yawning luxuriously while leaning upon their shovels represented the subtleties of such criticism, the burden of which continues to be that WPA is waste- fat, that its program is nourishing parasites, and that the nation cannot profit from work relief.

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UNITED States. Works Progress Administration; CRITICISM; NEWSPAPERS; PHOTOGRAPHS; PROFIT; UNITED States
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