The Great Depression, spanning from 1929 to the late 1930s, was a time of unprecedented economic hardship that affected ...

More than a quarter of all West Virginians get Social Security payments. Cuts mean those who rely on the funding could lose the help they need.

Roosevelt embarked on the Social Security program during the Great Depression, its trust fund was intact, well supplied, and never a concern of anyone in the federal government. Following the ...

He introduced monetary stimulus programs designed to ease the Great Depression, including Social Security. Workers received unemployment benefits, farmers were given assistance for failed (or ...

Social Security is consistently politically popular ... the most crushing effects of the economic slump known as the Great Depression. Since then, it has been a lifeline for millions of older ...