Historian Heather Cox Richardson explains what the people of these United States won 90 years ago.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. ... The Social Security Act established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services. It was a sweeping reworking of the relationship between the government and its citizens, using the power of taxation to pool funds to provide a basic social safety net.
The current Trump regime is out to destroy the system, of course. More for their billionaire buddies, less for the people. They are also striving to reduce the workforce that keeps our safety net, such as it is, functioning.
So some of the people turned out at the Federal Building in San Francisco to say "no"!
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