The Works Progress Administration $($WPA$)$ received congressional approval in early $1935.$ It aimed to employ men and women over age twenty$-$four in a growing range of projects. With a $$4$ billion budget, it represented the largest peacetime budget item in American history to that point. From its launch in $1935$ until it ended in $1943,$ the WPA employed a total of $8\mathrm{.}5$ million workers. Question $19$ options: True False