it is what it sound like - a program that hires people to make improvements to public properties.
For example, it might hire artists to paint murals in public buildings or it might pay for the construction of facilities in national parks.
public works program
public works authority
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The Public Works Administration was the New Deal program that employed people to build roads, public housing, and sewers.
Federal Highway Act
The Arts in Public Places program.
public works program
The Public Works Administration was the New Deal program that employed people to build roads, public housing, and sewers.
It was designed to provide water, sewerage, public buildings, theatres, stadiums, roads, bridges and seaports.
A program or works distributed without copyright is known to be in the public domain.The US government by law releases several items in the public domain such as census data.
The government does public works
The works inside the Coit Tower were carried out under the auspices of the Public Works of Art program, part of FDR's "New Deal". Since they were paid for by the Civil Works Administration and funded by the US Treasury Department they automatically became public domain upon completion.