FRANCES PERKINS
Frances Perkins
Radio Address on Social Insurance (1935)
"Remarks on the 25th Anniversary
of Social Security" by Frances Perkins. (1960)
"The Roots of Social Security"
by Frances Perkins. (1962)
SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD MEMBERS
Frank Bane Speech -- PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL SECURITY
(12/10/36)
Frank Bane Article -- PROMOTING JOB SECURITY
(June 1938)
This article by Social Security Board Executive Director Frank
Bane places the unemployment compensation provisions of the Social
Security Act in historical and intellectual perspective, and to
rationalize the system of State/Federal partnership characteristic
of the American approach to employment security.
Frank Bane Article -- A NEW AMERICAN REALITY
(August 1938)
This essay by Social Security Board Executive Director Frank
Bane attempts to make the historical and philosophical case for
Social Security in general.
George Bigge Speech --ADDRESS TO MASSACHUSETTS
STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR (8/4/45)
Mary "Molly" Dewson Speech--
THIS SOCIAL SECURITY (2/17/38)
Vincent Miles Speech -- OLD-AGE RETIREMENT
BENEFITS (11/16/36)
John Winant Speech -- PRACTICAL PROGRESS
UNDER THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (9/16/36)
John Winant Speech-- RADIO ADDRESS (12/28/36)
Ellen Woodward Speech -- SOCIAL SECURITY
IN WAR AND PEACE (1/27/43)
ASSORTED
Bob Myers: Actuarial Aspects of Financing
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (1953)
Wilbur J. Cohen: "Interview With Edwin
Witte" (1955)
Edwin Witte: "Reflections on the Beginnings
of Social Security" (1955)
Thomas Eliot: "The Legal Background
of the Social Security Act" (1961)
Thomas Eliot: "The Social Security
Bill -- 25 Years After"
J. Douglas Brown: "The Idea of Social
Security" (1957)
J. Douglas Brown: "The American Philosophy
of Social Insurance" (1957)
J. Douglas Brown: "The Birth of Old-Age
Insurance"(1963)
J. Douglas Brown: "The Genesis of Social
Security in America" (1969)
Ewan Clague: "Factors Contributing to
the Passage of the Social Security Act" (1961)
Wilbur J. Cohen: "Arthur J. Altmeyer:
Mr. Social Security" (1973)
Nelson H. Cruikshank: "A Philosophy for
Social Security" (1978)
Art Hess & Alvin David: "The
Disability Program: Its Origins-Our Heritage-Its Future-Our Challenge"
(1993) Historical overview of the development of the disability
program, by two former SSA officials.
Larry DeWitt: THE CIVILIAN WAR BENEFITS
PROGRAM: SSA'S FIRST DISABILITY PROGRAM 1997) This article by
the SSA Historian describes in detail a special war-time cash disability
benefit program administered by the Social Security Administration.
SSA was in fact paying cash disability benefits under this program
as early as 1943--more than a decade before disability benefits
became available under Title II of the Social Security Act.
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