Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal from the Frances Perkins Center
Link to the Social Security Administration website Social Insurance for U.S., for the transcript of a radio speech Perkins made in February 25, 1935 in which she describes for the first time what would become Social Security.
Click here for a 45 minutes speech about Perkins' legacy given by Kirsten Downey at the Kansas City Public Library.
The Social Security Act from Marist College
President Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935. |
The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
Public programs designed to provide income and services to individuals in the event of retirement, sickness, disability, death, or unemployment.
In the United States, the term social security refers specifically to the programs established in 1935 under the Social Security Act.
In particular, it refers to the social insurance portion of that act, which uses contributions made by workers and employers to provide income to people and their families during retirement or in the case of involuntary unemployment, disability, or death.
How Corporate Moderates Created the Social Security Act and Then Tried to Undermine It Later, G. William Domhoff, University of California Santa Cruz
Key Dates in the History of Social Security
Go here for the text of the Act
A Brief Explanation of the Act by the Federal Government (1936)
Social Security: Early Promotional Posters from the Social Welfare Project, Virginia Commonwealth University
Learning Plans
The Social Security Act from EDSITEment
Taxes in U.S. History from the Internal Revenue Service
Investigate the Social Security Act from Historical Thinking Matters
Debating Social Security: Understanding and Evaluating Perspectives on the Social Security Act of 1935
Canva Poster about her
Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? Freakonomics Radio (April 13, 2016)