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(85,992 posts). . . since those objections of yours pale in comparison to the complaints from the vast majority of working Americans who were left completely out of the initial Social Security law signed by FDR.
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. . . women made up 90% of domestic labor in 1940 and two-thirds of all employed black women were in domestic service. Exclusions exempted nearly half the working population.
Nearly two-thirds of all African Americans in the labor force, 70 to 80% in some areas in the South, and just over half of all women employed were not covered by Social Security. At the time, the NAACP protested the Social Security Act, describing it as a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through.
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