re: #341 lawhawk

WPA put a total of 8.5 million to work over a span of 1933 to 1945. At its peak, a total of 3.3 million were paid out of WPA in a single month, but that’s not a cumulative total.

okay; but howsabout 1942, when the draft called up every able-bodied man 18-34? And all their sisters and wives went to work in defense plants, and we had to recruit trainloads of Mexicans to come be our farmworkers? Surely that adds up to 6.5 million…