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The Committee on Economic SecurityThe President's Committee on Economic Security (CES) was formed in June
1934 and was given the task of devising "recommendations concerning
proposals which in its judgment will promote greater economic security."
In a message to Congress two weeks earlier President Roosevelt spelled-out
what he expected the CES to achieve. ". . . I am looking for a
sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against
several of the great disturbing factors in life--especially those which
relate to unemployment and old age."
The Committee on Economic Security was composed of five top cabinet-level officials, under the leadership of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. The CES assembled a small staff of experts borrowed from other federal agencies along with a handful of outside consultants.
The basic text of the original CES report to the President was 50 printed
pages, with an Appendix containing a list of Committee members and 19
additional tables of data. The full work of the CES was contained in 10
large volumes of reports and studies, which were never published. In 1937,
two years after passage of the Social Security Act, the new Social Security
Board published a summary of the unpublished volumes of the Committee's
work. This book, "Social Security In America," published in
1937, contains a summary of some of the unpublished material.
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