An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.
What is the SSA
The government spent $916 billion on SSA
The GDP is flat for SSA
Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921
He became the 32nd U.S. president in 1933
was the only president to be elected four times
Roosevelt led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II
greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal
Roosevelt died in Georgia in 1945.
President Franklin Roosevelt proposed sweeping economic reforms
Franklin Roosevelt pushed to have the United States' factories become an "arsenal of democracy"
signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all persons of Japanese descent to leave the West Coast
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