1935 display newspaper PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT signs SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

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1935 display newspaper PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT signs SOCIAL SECURITY ACT:
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1935 display newspaper PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT signs the bvery first SOCIAL SECURITY ACT -inv #9J-121

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theAtlanta Georgian dated Aug 15, 1935. This newspaper contains a large prominent front page photo with a heading: \"Signs New Deal Social Secuirity Bill.\" The photo shows President Franklin D Roosevelt signing the very first Act setting up SOCIAL SECURITY as we know it in the US.

Very historic beginning of US Social Security !!

A limited form of the Social Security program began as a measure to implement \"social insurance\" during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when poverty rates among senior citizens exceeded 50 percent. The stock market crash of 1929 had destroyed the value of many Americans\' retirement savings, and bank failures did further damage.

The Social Security Act was enacted August 14, 1935. The Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt\'s first term by the President\'s Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. The Act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. By signing this Act on August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt became the first president to advocate federal assistance for the elderly.

President Roosevelt signs Social Security Act, August 14, 1935. Standing are Rep. Robert Doughton (D-NC); unknown person in shadow; Sen. Robert Wagner (D-NY); Rep. John Dingell (D-MI); Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks (D-PA); the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins; Sen. Pat Harrison (D-MS); and Rep. David Lewis (D-MD).

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