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August 14, 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act (SSA) into law, creating unemployment compensation, old-age benefits and aid to dependent children.
"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.”
~ President Roosevelt at the signingThe SSA became law thanks to the tireless efforts of FDR's Sec. of Labor, Frances Perkins. The first woman to hold a cabinet position, BTW. Perkins came from privilege and became a champion for those trapped in industrial jobs & the less fortunate.
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Sanders Announces Legislation to Reverse Trump Cuts to Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Social Security must be expanded by making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-13-2024
..."On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the #SocialSecurityAct into law.
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The driving force behind the law was FDR’s secretary of labor, #FrancesPerkins. She was the first woman to hold a position in the U.S. Cabinet and still holds the record for having the longest tenure in that job: she lasted from 1933 to 1945.Perkins brought to the position a vision of government very different from that of the Republica...