Stimulus legacy less tangible than WPA | The Columbus Dispatch

Among dozens of jokes The American Weekly compiled in 1939 about the Works Progress Administration was this gem: "I hear your brother was trying to get into the WPA," said one man to another. "What's he doing now?" "Nothing," was the reply. "He got the job."

Oft-derided as a wasteful "boondoggle" by critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the WPA is enjoying a recovery act of sorts 70 years later, particularly in the context of today's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...