Placing theater artists on the federal payroll created controversy in the 1930s, as it would now. I can imagine a commentator declaring there's enough farce and tragedy in Washington already without ...

The City of New York will put some artists to work this summer with a $25 million program inspired by the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA). Announced yesterday, May 6, the recovery ...

Dante Brown packs orders for the Roots Rising Virtual Farmers Market in Pittsfield. Brown, a choreographer and dancer paired with Roots Rising and Jacob's Pillow, is one of six artists working with ...

To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford, I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human ...

WASHINGTON — In 1935, as Americans struggled through the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tossed a lifeline to artists, actors and writers with a huge infusion of federal aid to the ...

Editor: What is a “jobs program?” A jobs program is a planned action that is needed to stimulate the economy. The cost of such a program needs to be understood. A search for the expected cost requires ...