Date of Award

3-1938

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

Marguerite Reuso

Second Advisor

W.J. Keegan

Abstract

This dissertation is closely confined to a study of the Social Security Act, the provisions made by the Federal Government in aiding the states and the plans used by the various states. Data which have been incorporated into this thesis are the latest available at the time of writing. During 1935 the Congress of the United States passed a law, introduced and sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, called the "Social Security Act." The vote in the House of Representatives was 372 to 33; in the Senate 77 to 6. President Roosevelt signed the Act on August 14, 1935.

The Social Security Program is a program of cooperation between the states and the federal government for the "purpose of assisting the American people in meeting some of the major economic hazards of life, and is designed as an attack on the principal causes of insecurity existing prior to the depression and which may be expected to continue in the future." It does not attempt to meet all social problems, but is confined to the major causes of insecurity for which experience has developed a remedy.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to · the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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