On this date in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. It continues to provide income for retired Missourians and other Americans.
Photo credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt. United States Washington D.C. District of Columbia Washington D.C, 1920. April 9. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016827746/.
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