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Deseret News Share this story Photo illustration by Michelle Budge and Alex Cochran At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt put America to work. In 1935, when 1 in 5 Americans were unemployed, Washington launched the Works Progress Administration, still the largest public works initiative in the country’s history. Its initial appropriation was $4.9 billion (about $90 billion in today’s dollars), and within three years, it had provided jobs to 3 million Americans. The WPA’s scope still boggles the mind. Per Smithsonian Magazine, the project “built, improved ...

WATERTOWN — The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual population estimate that shows New York state lost more residents than any other state last year. But one researcher thinks the estimated population drop may not be as bad as officials are projecting. According to the numbers from the bureau, which are estimated based off data from the 2010 Census, New York state lost more than 126,000 residents between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020. The runner-up was Illinois, which lost 78,000 residents in the same period, about 47,000 fewer than New York. If the final 2020 Census reflect...