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Journal Article
\A Penny to Spare\: The Question of Charity and the Rise of Social Security
2014
Overview
[...]she identifies \"seeing one family, living by the side of the road\" as a catalyst for her writing; \"That was when I really started writing stories,\" she says (qtd. in Prenshaw 17). The Social Security program relied for its core principles on a concept then known as \"social insurance\" for citizens as it already existed in a number of other countries especially in Europe.3 In America, the stock market crash of 1929 and the unprecedented scale of economic collapse that followed affected every segment of society and every sector of the economy from farming to banking, from housing to the labor market. According to the Social Security website, \"the best estimates are that in 1934 over half of the elderly in America lacked sufficient income to be selfsupporting. 4 Some of the more radical proposals for economic betterment and social security were Huey P. Long's \"Every Man a King\" proposal that called on the federal government to guarantee every family in the nation an annual income of $5,000 so that they might have the necessities of life: a home, a job, a radio, and a car.
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Georgia State University,University of Pennsylvania Press
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