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The first social security program did not form until 1935. After 1935 the civil war had ended but had left hundreds and thousands of widows and orphans as well as disabled veterans. Right after the war the rate of disabled veterans increased. Many people that were once bread winners had lost it all, which brought upon a generous pension plan. This pension plan had close similarities to the development of social security (Armstrong, 1932). The first legislation in 1862 provided benefits to people

In 1929 the Stock Market crashed was said to have “ushered in” the Great Depression. After Wall Street and the Stock Market crash of 1929, the banks began to fail. By 1933 over half of the banks in the United States had failed and went out of business. The economy came to a full stop as businesses could no longer access credit lines to purchase inventory, checks were no longer accepted as currency due to the multitude of failing financial institutions which led to an unemployment rate reported to

We all can agree that in the past years there has been many events that has impacted America. One ever lasting effect was left by the Social Security Act of 1935. The Social Security Act also known as SSA, programs were developed to protect individual families from income loss due to unemployment, sickness, old age, death, and to improve citizens’ welfare ("Why Social Security?"2015). Through public service and economic assistance, with a task of raising a family. Although this left a huge impact

icon for the Rock and Roll musical genre. He began recording in 1953, and remained popular throughout the sixties and seventies (Elvis Presley 1). Vernon and Gladys Presley from Tupelo, Mississippi welcomed Elvis Presley into the world on January 8, 1935. He was accompanied at his birth by a twin brother named Jesse Garon that was stillborn; and buried at their home. His family was not very wealthy, so his love for music started at his church - a place where he sang gospel music. The Presley’s were

The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country’s railroad workers. Is it still around today? Yes it is still present today. Today the railroad retirement program is closely tied to the far better- known social security program, and although the railroad retirement program and the social security share a number of common elements

Land uses in central cities adjust to the population’s prosperity and necessities as urban planning progresses throughout the years. Correspondingly, downtown Austin has transformed throughout the years from the late nineteenth century to present day. In 1885, downtown Austin was chaotic because of the clustering single-family dwellings and tenements near one another with non-specialized goods and warehouses to support the factories near the Colorado River. Due to the pollution and congestion of

The Stroop Effect In his historic study, Stroop found that reading names of colors interfered with individuals’ ability to name the ink color the word was printed in when the two differed (i.e., the word “BLUE” written in red ink) (1935). However, the basis of this phenomenon can be traced back to Cattell who found that naming colors and pictures took twice as long to accomplish than reading the word these colors or pictures represented (1886). He concluded that this was due to reading being

What is genocide? Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The word genocide owes its existence to Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazi occupation of Poland and arrived in the United States in 1941. To enter that term in the world of international law in the hopes of preventing and punishing such horrific crimes against innocent people. In 1944, he coined the term “genocide” by combining genos, the

Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act of 1935, which created a program to provide lifetime payments to retired workers beginning at age 65 (U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2007). Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is also known as Social Security. Social Security comprises two

In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election, the Great Depression was in its third year. The American people did not have jobs, were losing their homes, and could not feed their families. They were desperate for any help. FDR was a ray of hope for the American people. His approach in dealing with the Great Depression was bold, broad and changed the role of government forever. Roosevelt’s campaign platform was to make change swiftly. He appointed people to help him do that