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New Deal - FDR: Social Securtiy Act

President Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act (1935) 2 min

President Roosevelt and Congress changed the way government's interact with society with this "New Deal" policy. The Social Security Act was created to help support a portion of society, specifically the elderly, from hopelessness during a time of great poverty and dispair.

 

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