Examine the U.S. Government's support during the Great Depression for programs such as the Federal Arts Project, the Federal Writers'...

Examine the U.S. Government's support during the Great Depression for programs such as the Federal Arts Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and other such efforts. Determine whether or not such projects were good government investments during those hard times and provide two examples that support your viewpoint.

Government helping the arts in hard times at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/1934-Picturing-Hard-Times.html and http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/wpa/