In 1941 it was rumored to have been inspected by the federal Works Progress Administration to determine its structural strength, but there is no evidence of this.

With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.

The final cost of the fourth courthouse was $ 130, 000: $ 65, 000 came from a county bond issue, $ 46, 500 from insurance and the remaining was covered by a Public Works Administration federal grant.

Additional expenditures involved in constructing the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park included $ 4. 3 million transferred from the City's general fund to the Opelika Industrial Development Authority ( OIDA ) between 1997 and 2000, a $ 1. 9 million federal industrial park access road grant, $ 2. 5 million from Opelika Water Works Board and the City of Opelika to sewer and water the park, $ 12. 1 million from the Alabama Department of Transportation to construct an interchange.

Carbon Hill was " especially hard-hit by the Depression ," and became known for its " savvy utilization of federal resources " provided by the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) and the Public Works Administration ( PWA ).

File: Quitman County Courthouse ; Georgetown, GA. JPG | Quitman County Courthouse was built in 1939 by the Public Works Administration using federal relief funds.

With federal funds from the Works Progress Administration, the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge, a single-span, two-lane highway bridge built for automotive traffic, was concluded between Moline and Davenport in 1935 and quickly became the preferred method for interstate transit.

* Roosevelt Hall was constructed by local carpenters and other workers hired under federal Civil Works Administration.

At least one of the buildings on the high school campus was a project of the federal Works Projects Administration ( WPA ).

During this trying time, the federal government established the Works Project Program ( WPA ) and the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ).

The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery was built in 1936 under the federal Works Project Administration.

:* Works that affect navigation are subject to federal approval under the Navigable Waters Protection Act, as well as provincial approval ( as the beds of navigable waters are generally reserved to the Crown in right of the province )

He was the director of the Southern California division of the federal Works Project Administration from 1935 to 1942, and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall.

In late May 1938, Chandler's campaign manager publicly claimed that federal relief agencies – especially the Works Progress Administration – were openly working for Barkley's re-election.

* FFRF v. Faith Works – In January 2002, a federal district court decided that Faith Works, a faith-based addiction treatment program, was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money in violation of the Establishment Clause.

Following completion in 1937, the dam was renamed for U. S. Representative James P. Buchanan, who was involved obtaining federal funding the project from the Public Works Administration.

The city is linked by highways to distant towns around Sabah and these are mainly federal roads maintained by the national Public Works Department.

Many state park systems date to the 1930s, when around 800 state parks across the country were developed with assistance from federal job creation programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration.

The federal Department of Public Works, and later the Department of Railways and Canals, took seven years ( 1875 – 1882 ) to build the Thunder Bay Branch from Fort William to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The federal Department of Public Works, and later the Department of Railways and Canals, took seven years ( 1875 – 1882 ) to build the Thunder Bay Branch from Fort William to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Coit Tower murals were done under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists.

The three branches of the river at the delta were extensively dredged and widened by the federal Department of Public Works in the early twentieth century to facilitate navigation.

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was terminated in 1935 and its work taken over by two entirely new federal agencies, the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Administration.

The paper breaks down IQ averages by U. S. states using the federal government's National Assessment of Educational Progress math and reading test scores as a source.

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

Fox's coverage of the issue has been criticized, and the California Progress Report argued that Huron's problems are more the result of poor water management decisions by the local water district than by federal government.

Benjamin Zycher, former Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress, opposes allowing the federal government to negotiate prices in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, and argues that patients and their doctors should make their own decisions to choose drugs like Vioxx, rather than having the U. S. Food and Drug Administration decide on the basis of " bureaucratized ... scientific study ".

A report from the Center for American Progress concludes that a $ 100 billion federal investment in clean energy technologies over 2009 and 2010 would yield 2 million new U. S. jobs, cutting the unemployment rate by 1. 3 % and put the nation on a path toward a low-carbon economy.

In February 2007, the 527 organization Progress for America Voter Fund was likewise fined $ 750, 000 for its failure to abide by federal campaign finance laws during the 2004 election cycle.

Progress had also been made in civil rights, with the desegregation of both the federal civil Service and the armed forces and the creation of the Commission on Civil Rights.

Three distinct phases of a federal workers ' education program existed: FERA ( 1933 – 1935 ), Works Progress Administration ( WPA — prior to separation from the other adult education programs, 1935 – 1939 ), and WPA Workers ' Service Program ( 1939 – 1943 ).

In the 1930s the federal government under Franklin D. Roosevelt was developing plans to preserve the environment as part of the Depression-era public works programs ; the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, spent five years on projects at the park.

" Ritt then went to work with the Roosevelt administration's New Deal Works Progress Administration as a playwright for the Federal Theater Project, a federal government-funded theater support program.

The stadium was originally built in 1934 with help of federal Works Progress Administration funds as Columbia Municipal Stadium.

This prevented the state from receiving federal funds for Works Progress Administration projects and making it difficult to lower the extremely high unemployment rate.

The majority of funding was provided by the federal Works Progress Administration ( project 65-1-66-30 ), with approximately $ 110, 000 coming from district revenue bonds.

Gorman Elementary School was built by the federal government's Works Progress Administration in 1939.

As of 2011, Sickles High School was meeting the Adequate Yearly Progress mandated under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The federal government's Works Progress Administration programs during the Great Depression helped Orlando remain economically stable.

BGHS failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress ( AYP ) according to the federal No Child Left Behind Act because of scores below the minimum target on the Prairie State Achievement Examination and ACT in two student subgroups.

Scieszka is also the founder of Guys Read, a web-based literacy program for boys whose mission is ‘ to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers .’ He was prompted to found the nonprofit in response to his experiences as an elementary school teacher and the United States National Assessment of Educational Progress statistics showing boys consistently scoring worse than girls on federal reading tests every year, at every grade level.