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Social Security in America : The Factual Background of the Social Security Act as Summarized from Staff Reports to the Committee on Economic Security

Social Security in America : The Factual Background of the Social Security Act as Summarized from Staff Reports to the Committee on Economic Security

DATE: 1937

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ABSTRACT: The President's Committee on Economic Security (CES) was formed in June 1934 and was given the task of devising "recommendations concerning proposals which in its judgment will promote greater economic security." In six months, the CES designed the first comprehensive federal social insurance program in the nation's history. The full work of the CES was contained in 10 large volumes of reports and studies, which were never published. In 1937, two years after passage of the Social Security Act, the new Social Security Board published a summary of the unpublished volumes of the Committee's work. This book, "Social Security In America," published in 1937, contains a summary of some of the unpublished material.

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United States. Committee on Economic Security , Murray, Merrill G. (Merrill Garver), 1900- and Ring, Martha D. Social Security in America : The Factual Background of the Social Security Act as Summarized from Staff Reports to the Committee on Economic Security , Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1937, https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6298, accessed on September 30, 2023.

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NOTE: From title page: Social Security Board Publication No. 20

From preface: The publication of this summary of the staff reports of the Committee on Economic Security has been made possible by the Social Security Board. The Board assumed the cost of publication and of completing the preparation of the summary, which was unfinished when the Committee on Economic Security went out of existence.

From preface: This summary was prepared principally by Miss Martha D. Ring ... The unemployment compensation section was prepared by Merrill G. Murray.

PUBLISHER: United States Government Printing Office

PLACE: Washington, D.C.

DIGITAL COPY SOURCE: Digitized by the Internet Archive

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ACCESS CONDITION: Public Domain

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