Giving Compass' Take:

• Smithsonian discusses a time in America where building and infrastructure was heavily funded and praised. They highlight eight impressive landmarks that came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

• How can these images help inspire new funding from our government to create new infrastructures? How would something like the WPA work in current times?

• Here's an article discussing the bipartisanship at the core of the Trump Infrastructure Plan.

Long before "stimulus" became a dirty word in some quarters of Washington, the federal government put people to work building things. Lots of things.

This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the biggest and most ambitious of more than a dozen New Deal agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Designed to give millions of unemployed Americans jobs during the Great Depression, the WPA remains the largest public works program in the nation's history. It provided 8 million jobs in communities large and small. And what those workers put up has never been matched.

The WPA built, improved or renovated 39,370 schools; 2,550 hospitals; 1,074 libraries; 2,700 firehouses; 15,100 auditoriums, gymnasiums and recreational buildings; 1,050 airports, 500 water treatment plants, 12,800 playgrounds, 900 swimming pools; 1,200 skating rinks, plus many other structures. It also dug more than 1,000 tunnels; surfaced 639,000 miles of roads and installed nearly 1 million miles of sidewalks, curbs and street lighting, in addition to tens of thousands of viaducts, culverts and roadside drainage ditches.

Read the full article about America's past and great infrastructures by Andrea Stone at Smithsonian