Social Security Act 1935 Creates American Unemployment and Old-Age Insurance
Poet involved
What happened
President Roosevelt's Social Security Act of 1935 created compulsory federal insurance against unemployment and old age in the United States, representing the most significant American response to the mass loss and destitution of the Great Depression.
Literary impact
The Social Security Act was legislated amid the literary and cultural ferment of the New Deal era; it directly informed the social poetry of Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and the Objectivists, for whom economic security and loss were central political themes.
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