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Public Pension Programs – Social Security

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International Handbook of Population Aging

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During the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, was nominated to be the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. In his speech to accept the nomination, Roosevelt discussed the Depression era hardships and told the American people “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”

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    Diane M. Watts-Roy

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Watts-Roy, D.M., Williamson, J.B. (2009). Public Pension Programs – Social Security. In: Uhlenberg, P. (eds) International Handbook of Population Aging. International Handbooks of Population, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8356-3_18

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