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MrScorpio

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Tue Aug 14, 2012, 02:52 PM Aug 2012

Happy Birthday, Social Security!



Today in labor history, August 14, 1935: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act “to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws.”

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Happy Birthday, Social Security! (Original Post) MrScorpio Aug 2012 OP
It has given security to the lives of millions since and is still going strong. n/t DippyDem Aug 2012 #1
Kick pinto Aug 2012 #2
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