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l.\!01thwe1ate r n U niv er sity Lihrarv DO CU Mi:: NTS ROO M 4-1144 THE WORKS PROGRAM ******* --Works Progress Administration-For immediate release, Thursday, April 2, 1936 Hopkins Reports 96 percent of WPA Workers Taken From Relief Rolls • .Approximately 96 persons out of every 100 working on Works Progress Administration projects throughout the country have been assigned to jobs from relief rolls, Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced today. Figures released by Mr. Hopkins also showed that about 2,150,000 or 80 percent of the 2,700,COO workers reported on Works Progress Administration project payrolls throughout the country in December, 1935, were assigned at unskilled work. About seven percent of this total were assigned at jobs requiring intermediate skills, eight percent at skilled work, and two percent were placed on professional and technical work. The remainder were placed in supervisory and other positions exempted from the security wage. (See attached Table I) About 85 percent of workers taken from relief rolls outside of New York City were employed in December at unskilled work whereas only 6 percent of non-relief workers were thus assigned. Over half (53 percent) of the non- relief persons employed were assigned to supervisory and other positions exempted \ ·rom the security wage scale, The next largest classification in the non-relief group was skilled work which represented 18 percent of the total (See attached Table II). Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 4-1144 Outside of New York City only 3~4 percent of all workers · employed on the WPA Program were not_ taken from relief rolls. Of all · workers assigned at unskilled work only ~.2 percent did not have relief origins, and about 6 ?ercent of the intermediate workers and 10 percent of the skilled workers fell in the same category. Professional and technical workers not taken from the relief rolls accounted for 22 percent of this occupational class, and of the supe rvisory and other non-security wage workers, 68 percent did not have relief status. (See attached Table III) 0000000 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY To.ble I 1:' forkers 1'mployod or, WPA Projects in En.ch Wc.ge Clo.ss De cembe r, 1935 Wo.go Clcss 1fomb c r Tot ..:l Percent of Toto.l 2,6 98 ,068 100.0 82 ,1 77 3.0 51 ,544 1.9 Skill e d 207,041 7.7 Inte rmodic.to 204 ,410 7.G 2,15 2 , 016 79 .8 Supe rvisory Profossiono.l & Technicc.l Unskil10d Unknovm :::.I 880 o. l ....f Less th r.n . 05 perc ent. Division of Research , Stutistics & Records Mn.rch 16, 1936 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 8574 T£'. bl e II '7WRKS PROGRES S ADF DTISTRATI0N lliiorkcrs ~mploycd on 1!1fPA Pr oj e cts by ~fago Clo.ss a nd Forme r Re li e f St utus, E;-c 1.u sivc of New Yr,rk City Dc ccmb 0r, 1 935 Percent From Re li ef Rolls "\fago Cl (:c S s Totc,l 100 .0 Supervisory Wot from Re lie f Rolls 100 .0 100 . 0 o.9 52.9 Profcssionc,J. & Tcchni c o. l 1. 5 1. 2 9. 5 Skill e d 6.0 5.5 18 . 2 7.4 13 . 3 85 .0 6. 0 !Y 0.1 I nto r modi ct c 82 . 3 Unsk ill ed Unknovm I Le ss t hen . 05 po rc ,: ;nt . Division of Resc~ rch , Statistic s & Records Vic.. rch 1 6 , 1 83 6 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 8574 T::i.bl o III ·1VORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION Re lief a.nd Non-re lief Workers on WPA Projects in Ee.ch 'Ve.go Cl a.ss, Exclusive ~f 'ifaw York City De c embe r, 1935 Pe rc ent Vfoge Clr,ss Tota.l From Relief Rolls not from Re lief Ro lls Tot o.l 100. 0 96.6 3.4 Supervisory 100. 0 31. 9 68 .l Professionctl & To chnic c.l 100. 0 78.1 21.9 Skilled 100.0 89.6 10.4 Int e rme die.t o 100 .0 94.0 6.0 Unskilled 1 00 .0 99.8 0.2 Unknovm 100.0 93 . 8 6 .2 Division of ~os Jc.rch, Sto.tistics .9: Rocords J\:c,;,rch 16, 1 93G Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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