President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, 1935, creating a federal safety net for older, unemployed and disadvantaged Americans.

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The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. The Act created benefits systems for retired, jobless, and disabled people, as well as dependent mothers and ...

Written on verso: I wanted you to have this copy of this original photograph of my father signing the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. / Jim Roosevelt Summary Standing with Roosevelt are Rep.

FDR started Social Security. Ninety years later, his grandson, Boston lawyer Jim Roosevelt, wants to save it. Amid the Trump administration’s cuts, the 79-year-old sees ‘a direct threat to the ...

The fatal flaw was FDR’s decision to make it a pay-as-you-go benefit. We should have fixed it by now. ... Miss.) repeated that claim during debate over the Social Security Act: ...

On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ensuring income for elderly Americans and creating a federal unemployment insurance program.

In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. This law established a federal safety net that provided benefits to retirees over 65, funded by lifetime payroll ...

Take a moment in the next few days to wish Social Security a happy 88 th birthday.. It was on Aug. 14, 1935, that then-President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) signed the Social Security Act into law.