Article Title
Publication Date
October 2006
Abstract
Today, just as in 1935, there appears to be a fundamental belief in American society that those who have worked and made contributions into a retirement system should have some assurance that they will not be left unprotected by our government once they have reached an age where they cannot work. The problem we are facing as a society is one of determining how to offer retirees income protection while not taxing our shrinking working population too heavily. There are many proposals being debated on how to fix the system, but before decisions are made on how to restructure our social security system we need to look at its history. Perhaps in this way we can maintain the basic principles of the social security program that our society still professes to believe in.
Recommended Citation
Selvy, Patricia Miller
(2006)
"Social Security: From then to now, 70 years of growth,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 29
:
No.
2
, Article 2.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol29/iss2/2