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A Message Transmitting To The Congress A Report Of The Social Security Board Recommending Certain Improvments In The Law
We shall make the most orderly progress if we look upon social security as a development toward a goal rather than a finished product. We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that social security can furnish only a base upon which each one of our citizens may build his individual security through his own individual efforts....
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Title: A Message Transmitting To The Congress A Report Of The Social Security Board Recommending Certain Improvments In The Law
Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt (author)
Date: January 16, 1939
Format: Government Document
Source: Social Security Online History Page
Keywords: Aging; Blind; Children; Economics; Employment; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government; Government Agencies; Insurance; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medicine & Science; New Deal; Policy; Politics; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Sensory Disability; Social Security; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress
Topics: Government, Policy & Law