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A 6 page paper discussing the U.S. Social Security administration and presented as a 'policy report' being presented for use by a 'congressional policy maker.' Background, political ideology, developments and challenges, as well as recommendations for the future of Social Security are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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which produced the Social Security Act and the Works Projects Administration. Roosevelt blatantly orchestrated the general populations ill-will toward the Republicans, blamed as they were for the Depression, to form
a kind of "responsible party system" that could dominate electoral politics. The strategy was to provide programs for large groups of citizens, especially workers, and build bureaucracies along professional lines
to run them (Shefter 1978). Any analysis of public social provisions, especially Social Security, across the American states presents a rich opportunity to examine the institutional politics theories of
the past sixty years. What is often forgotten is the simple fact that individual states had great influence over New Deal spending programs. The 1935 Social Security Act
created only one national spending program, mainly issuing incentives for states to pass their own legislation (Amenta and Poulsen 33). Policies for the aged constituted the largest proportion of
social spending (Myles1989) in the late 1930s, as it does currently. The Old-Age Assistance (OAA) provided the most contentious and expensive issue in state-level social policy. This grant-in-aid program,
Title I of the Social Security Act, was the program in which Congress was most interested (Witte 1963). The federal law left major issues of benefits and eligibility to
the states - which paid half the costs. By 1939, all states had enacted OAA and, as a result, it came to be the primary method of addressing economic dependence
in old age until the 1950s. By contrast, old-age insurance, the program known today as "social security," did not pay benefits until 1940 - and only to those few who
qualified - and was of secondary fiscal importance until the 1950s (Amenta and Poulsen 41). In the early days of Social Security, there was a great deal of concern that
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