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Message To Congress On Social Security
It is overwhelmingly important to avoid any danger of permanently discrediting the sound and necessary policy of Federal legislation for economic security by attempting to apply it on too ambitious a scale before actual experience has provided guidance for the permanently safe direction of such efforts....
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Title: Message To Congress On Social Security
Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt (author)
Date: January 17, 1935
Format: Government Document
Source: Social Security Online History Page
Keywords: Aging; Economics; Employment; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government; Government Agencies; Insurance; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; New Deal; Pension; Physical Disability; Policy; Politics; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Security; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress
Topics: Government, Policy & Law