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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Barack Obama wants to pump money into public works projects like roads and bridges, much like the old works progress administration from the 1930s.

And Mark Ipensky recently had a really interesting essay in the

New Republic about another program from that era and that was the Federal

Writers Project and he urged reviving that.

Now Grant, you know about this project.

This employed more than 6,000 out of work reporters and editors and other kinds of writers

to produce some really fascinating stuff, like for example, oral

histories from freed slaves, and it gave a lot of writers a chance to practice their craft,

people who turned out to be Ralph Ellison and Zora Neil Hurston and John Steinbeck.

I think that this would be a really great message to send that this is another kind of

infrastructure that merits that kind of investment.

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