Social Security Administration

To Kill a Mockingbird is set during a changing and developing time in the United States. The Great Depression, which started in 1929, changed the way of life for many people in the 30’s, including characters in this novel. During this time, the old notions of gender roles held fast, but women started to enter the workforce more frequently in order to support their families in a time of economic hardship. Women had also recently gained the right to vote, leveling the playing field of gender…

unemployed and hungry, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his first New Deal program in 1933 to help solve economic problems created by the Depression. In 1935, he launched a much more selective Second New Deal which included the Works Progress Administration, which was made to help Americans get back to work. The WPA included The Federal Theater Project, which was used to fund theater and other artistic programs during The Great Depression. President Roosevelt felt that by creating this…

our system of government. One of these ideas he proposed was the New Deal. In "The New Deal" by Franklin Roosevelt, it was a proposition of many unprecedented ideas that would later on help the Depression immensely. For example, he formed the Social Security and Welfare State. Roosevelt also banned child labor. During this time children could work, however it was very dangerous. Another great idea he made was how he put people to work again. Roosevelt decided to give millions of people jobs by…

The Foes of the Great Depression Imagine a family that barely has a sufficient amount of food or water to live on. Imagine this family’s parent attempting to get a job to make money, but they cannot. Now, imagine this situation happening to millions of families across America. The very thought is devastating. However, two leaders rose up to try to fix this problem. Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt used different economic and domestic policies during their presidency to reach a common…

for jobs with little hope of being accepted into a new job. Nearly 15 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of the country’s banks have failed. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped ease the matter of the Great Depression in the 1930’s by his administration passing legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production. It helped create jobs and stimulate recovery of the nation so the people would not have to live in poverty. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt had a variety of…

The Great Depression Spreads The cause of Depression spreading in the United States internationally was, the catastrophic collapse of stock market price in 1932 ever since then everything went downhill. In 1933, banks started to lose all their money and go downhill just like everything else. All this caused people to go homeless, go into debt, and become unemployed, (1, 6)“unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force”. All this caused…

notorious welfare fraud case occurred in Chicago in the 1970’s. A woman named Linda Taylor defrauded the government out of $150,000 annually by using eighty different names, thirty addresses and fifteen phone numbers. She collected food stamps, social security and veteran’s benefits from four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands. The fraud was so extensive that Americans coined the phrase, “welfare queen” to describe her. (The Truth Behind The…

FDR’s First Fireside Chat The fireside chats of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), instilled an assurance and hope in the citizens of the United States (US) though the Great depression and World War 2 (WWII). In total he did 31 fireside chats during his four terms a president. In his first chat he wanted to assure the people that the stock market crash of 1929 would be taken care of and how he would take care of it. He was a poster child of servant leadership. He wanted to make sure that…

Marcia Fudge, Ohio’s representative, enters the podium to discuss the war on poverty on its 50th anniversary which was introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. “The war on poverty has turned into the war on the poor.” Fudge goes onto discuss the beneficial programs former President Johnson created in response to the poverty rates in the United States. According to Marcia Fudge, poverty rates have fallen from 26 percent to 16 percent from 1967 to 2012. However, congress has recently…

and their retirement plans. Workers aged 65 and older tended to be the first to lose their jobs and the last to be rehired during economically difficult times; almost no one had any reliable cash-generating form of retirement security. This crisis brought upon Social Security, and ever since then it has been a huge success the way it has worked and has helped many families. The act involved many different categories; each of them plays a vital role in today’s economy. Looking into today’s…