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Social Security Act of 1935
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Social Issues
Demographic changes that rendered economic security
•Industrial Revolution
•Urbanization of America
•Disappearance of extended family
•Increase in life expectancy
Social Security Act: August 14, 1935
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Historical Issues
Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI)
Social Policies/federal legislations/programs
•Provisions for general welfare
1. Unemployment insurance
2.Aid to dependent children
Historical setting
3.Aid to the Blind
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4.Public Health Work
Economic Insecurity
5.Old age assistance
Unemployment, illness, disability
6.Taxes
Post-Civil War
Health care
•English Poor Laws
•Almshouses and poorhouses
•Civil War Pensions (1862)
•Stock Market Crash(1929) and Great Depression
•Social Insurance Movement
Inequality
Impacted
Social Security Act of 1935
By Anne Zepeda
Jamie Valle
1953
1965
2012
Unemployment benefits
Old Age Insurance
Maternal and child welfare-AFDC-TANF
Aid to the Blind
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Earned Income Tax Credit
Medicare Bill
Groups
• Job categories
• Most needy groups: 3/5ths of African Americans
Excluded Groups
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• Thomas Paine
- Agrarian Justice
•Francis E. Townsend (1933)
-Townsend Plan
•Committee on Economic Security (CES)-1934
-Intention to provide SS program
Influential Figures
•Social Security Board -President FDR,
-Chairmen-John G. Winant,
-Arthur J. Altmeyer,
-& Vincent M. Miles
How have these policies impacted social welfare policies?
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