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Culture During the Great Depression

Lectures in History

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The Real Roots of Social Security

Francis perkins, secretary of labor. She gets the lion's share of the credit for social security. The original deduction is going to be a wopping one percent of your come so social security sounds radical by today's standards. It also includes people that we to day, we would use the word disabilities, but in the language of the 19 thirties, a e who were blind, crippled.

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