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Social Security's 50th Anniversary Highlights New Deal Legacy
The Social Security Act, signed by Franklin D Roosevelt on August 14 1935, created pensions and unemployment support and funded health and welfare programs. It became a major revenue and moral pillar, shaping U.S. policy through decades despite political battles and calls for reform.
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Washington
Franklin D Roosevelt
Committee On Economic Security
Congress
Roosevelt
Bedrock
Public Health Service
Reagar
Federa
Aif Landon
Barry Goldwater
Reagan
Harry Hopkins
Social Security
Huey Long
Louisiana
White House
Long
Baton Rouge
Social Security Board
Upton Sinclair
Muckraker
California
Alaska
Wisconsin
Frances Perkins
Chicago
U.S
Hopkins
Iowa
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Dutchess County
New York
Homer Cummings
Henry A. Wallace
Edwin Witte
Supreme Court
American Medical Association
Thomas W. Eliot