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    It also did not redistribute income equally among the people. However, it did provide Americans with economic security that they had never known before. The legacy of the New Deal included unemployment insurance, social security insurance, and insured bank deposits The Wagner Act reduced violence in labor relations. The Securities and Exchange Commission protected the Stock Market investment of millions of small investors. The New Deal’s greatest and most important legacy…

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    Social insurance are programs that are funded by the payroll taxes. Public assistance programs are funded by the government and include anything that assists the health, public, and education. Both social insurance programs and public assistance programs are made to help the needy. One social insurance program would be Medicare, it is for people that are sixty-five and up who have not claimed their social security benefits. It is also for people who have kidney failure and people who have…

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    Throughout American History our government has done their best to provide adequate health care coverage to all Americans. The focus of this paper is to explain the history Medicare, Medicaid and evaluate the role of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in healthcare and to provide insight on the socioeconomic drivers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a Division of Health and Human Services and previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration was established to…

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    several lasting effects of this New Deal that are still extremely helpful today. Take the Social Security System for an example, many people rely on Social Security as their main source of income after retirement. However the government didn't just work on social security, that was actually one of the last things that the New Deal accomplished. This New…

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    Mandatory Private Pension

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    America's Social Security system is in serious trouble. Payroll tax rates have been increased over the past 40 years. Social Security has become an increasingly bad deal for American workers who must pay record high taxes to a system that provides only meager levels of income for their retirement years. The current social security system is no longer a feasible approach to providing social security. Mandatory private pension systems not only offer an alternative to the failing system we are…

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    There are in fact different individuals and groups that have different views on what causes poverty in a society and how to fix the problem so that the United States economy can flourish. But, in order to properly address the cause of poverty, one must know what poverty is. Poverty is the state in which families or individuals are extremely poor. And what is meant by extremely poor is by having little to no money, food, or any means of support in general that is necessary for sustaining good…

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    still have social security, the S.E.C. and the F.D.I.C. to watch over our finances. (Preview) FDR affected the 1930’s by creating the New Deal which focused on the relief, recovery and reform of the United States after the Great Depression. (Transition) Body To start… (TOPIC SENTENCE) Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted the 1930’s by providing relief to the…

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    hurt the country. No matter the view, the New Deal changed America in a revolutionary way through the Glass-Steagall Act, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Recovery Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and the Social Security Act. The New Deal consists of multiple economic and political policies created by FDR in an attempt to benefit America during the Great…

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    unemployment, poverty, the Dust Bowl, creation of the New Deal, and the less distinguished Second New Deal, under the courageous President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There has been many disagreements about the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act, which are key programs in the Second New Deal. The main arguments against the WPA are that it hired lazy people, spent too much money, and was a political scheme. The main problem with the SSA was its inefficient setup. Many do not…

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    Fund. All the money that is received by the trust funds is usually used to pay the benefits and operating expenses of the program. If there is expenses or increments not needed they are automatically invested in interest-bearing securities. These interest-bearing securities are guaranteed by the U.S. Government. The income from trusts fund income includes all amounts that…

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