Who benefited from the works progress administration (wpa)?
a. writers, artists, and musicians

b. students still in school

c. shipbuilders and brick layers

d. new mexico school of mines

Explanation:

I got completely fooled by this. I thought that the answer would be C because it was mostly unskilled laborers that were employed by the WPA -- men in good physical shape who were willing to work.

While that is true, there is no answer that looked like that.

On further searching, I found out that it was writers artists and musicians. But that was a subdivision of the WPA that they were employed under.

The students still in school were under another subdivision. They too were employed in some capacity in the National Forests.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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