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Quick Fact – WPA Mandate

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1937

The director of the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal agency that employed individuals to construct public works projects, informed all Nevada workers that it wouldn’t tolerate “gambling, drinking or other unnecessary expenditure” and those discovered using their earnings that way would be fired.

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