Social Security

- - Social Security, also known as the 'Old-Age Trust Fund', is the largest social program in th e United States. It's main fuction is to meet the needs of workers who are retired or disabled. On August 14, 1935 the Social Security Act became a law. There were a lot of problems and revisions in the process, but the program was finally put into effect. The country was in dire need of something, anything to get the …

…itself up with a program of long-term positive effects. ENDNOTES: 1'War and Post War Social Security', American Council on Public Affairs, Washingotn, D.C., 1942, p. 73 2'An American Philosophy of Social Security-Evolution and Issues', J. Douglas Brown, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972, P.7 3'The Great Depression 1929-1942', Dixon Webster, Quadrangle Books Inc., Chicago, 1971, p. 201 4'Social Security: From Crisis to Crisis?', Committee for Economic Development, Library of Congress, New York, N.Y., 1984, p. 5 , p. 201