Social+Security+Act+of+1935

Event Summary

 * The Social Security Act from Marist College**
 * **See also The Social Security Act from Digital History**

The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
 * First time the federal government instituted a program to alleviate social ills
 * Did not cover about 1/2 of workers in the U.S. economy
 * Agricultural workers and domestic workers (who were in large part African Americans) were excluded

How Corporate Moderates Created the Social Security Act and Then Tried to Undermine It Later, G. William Domhoff, University of California Santa Cruz


 * [[image:timeline2_rus.svg.png link="@https://www.nasi.org/learn/socialsecurity/key-dates"]]Key Dates in the History of Social Security**



[[image:primary_sources.PNG link="@https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=68"]]Primary Sources

 * Go here for the text of the Act**


 * A Brief Explanation of the Act by the Federal Government (1936)**


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 12.30.24 PM.png]]Lesson Plans**


 * The Social Security Act from EDSITEment**


 * Taxes in U.S. History from the Internal Revenue Service**


 * Investigate the Social Security Act from Historical Thinking Matters**