SOCIAL SECURITY
AMERICA AND THE DOLE
WASHINGTON, April 19.
The House of Representatives passed the Social Security Bill t>y 372 votes to 33 without amendment. ' f '
President Roosevelt on November 14 outlined the portion of his programme of "economic security" he would press before Congress. He said he would ask for unemployment insurance as a cooperative Federal and State undertaking, supported by contributions, not taxation, and with funds held and1 invested by the Federal Government He issued a warning against allowing "this type of insurance to become a dole through mingling insurance and relief. It is not charity. Let us profit by the mistakes of foreign countries and keep out of unemployment insurance the dole, every element of which is actuarially unsound." He indicated that he was not yet ready to act regarding old age and sickness insurance. "Our first task," he said, "is to get the economic j system to function so that there will be greater general security."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 7
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