Our Documents: The Social Security Act

"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family ..."

Social Security Act Photos

bullet Social Security Poster: widow
bullet Social Security Poster: old man
bullet Social Security: "Unemployed insured workers registering for jobs and filing benefit claims at a State employment office."
bullet Social Security "Part of the biggest bookkeeping job in the world: filing workers' applications for social security account numbers."
bullet Social Security "Keeping Individual Old-Age Insurance Records"
bullet Social Security: homeless man
bullet Social Security: Mother and Child
bullet Social Security: Public Health nursing
bullet Social Security 45th Anniversary Poster

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