---
title: Putting America to Work (Recovery Act road-work sign)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arra-putting-america-to-work-sign-2009/
description: 'An orange road-work sign: a diamond pictogram of a figure digging, beside the words ''Putting America to Work''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Putting America to Work (Recovery Act road-work sign)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/arra-putting-america-to-work-sign-2009.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/arra-putting-america-to-work-sign-2009.png)

# Putting America to Work (Recovery Act road-work sign)

An orange road-work sign: a diamond pictogram of a figure digging, beside the words 'Putting America to Work'. Made for projects paid for by the 2009 stimulus law, it credits the programme with a result in a virtue phrase and gives no count of jobs or dollars.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PUTTING AMERICA
TO WORK
```

[← "미국놈 때려잡는 군사놀이 신나요": poster in a North Korean primary school (photographed 2008)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-primary-school-yankee-game-poster-2008/) ["일심단결을 더욱 강화하자!": Workers' Party poster, Pyongyang (photographed 2010) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-unity-poster-pyongyang-2010/)

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