In response to unemployment during the Great Depression, JL Cincinnati Members fed 1,000–1,500 men a day at the Cincinnati Opera while the League’s Legislative Committee produced monthly reports on emerging economic relief legislation that would later inform what became the Works Progress Administration (WPA). - The Junior League International

In response to unemployment during the Great Depression, JL Cincinnati Members fed 1,000–1,500 men a day at the Cincinnati Opera while the League’s Legislative Committee produced monthly reports on emerging economic relief legislation that would later inform what became the Works Progress Administration (WPA).