What problem did Roosevelt say the Social Security Act would solve?
the lack of jobs for older Americans
job retraining for disabled people
economic insecurity for people who could no
longer work
industrialization
Today a hope of many years standing is in
large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past
hundred years, with its startling industrial
changes, has tended more and more to make
life insecure. Young people have come to
wonder what would be their lot when they
came to old age. The man with a job has
wondered how long the job would last.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Presidential Statement
Signing the Social Security Act,
August 14, 1935
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