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Editorials
March 5, 1949 issue

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The article focuses on the U.S. President Harry S. Truman's proposals for social-security legislation, submitted to the U.S. Congress that represent the first real effort to extend protection to tens of millions of the least secure in the total U.S. population. Never before has there been any real possibility that Congress would act on the President's recommendation. As a result of the war and the post-war inflation, the benefits provided under the present law have become so inadequate that it is farcical to refer to the system as providing security. The retirement age for women employees, widows and wives of insured wage earners would be reduced from sixty-five to sixty.

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SOCIAL security; LEGISLATION; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; UNITED States. Congress; INFLATION (Finance); UNITED States
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