A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ensuring income for ...

On that August day in 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt was surrounded by a phalanx of White men and one woman, Frances Perkins, the main architect of Social Security and much of FDR’s New Deal.

It was 90 years ago that Congress passed the Social Security Act of 1935, which was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a key part of his New Deal. Millions of American ...

In addition to investing in roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure, the U.S. government under the New Deal launched a range of social programs, hired out-of-work writers and actors through ...

A mural titled ‘The Security of the People’ by Seymour Fogel, illustrating the values and programs put forth by the New Deal. | Fine Art/GettyImages Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still ...

IN 1932, in deepest slump, American voters threw out their president and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With 12m out of work, enter the New Deal. Its kingpins were four: • Deficit spending ...

FDR started Social Security. Ninety years later, ... signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935. ... Musk and Trump are trying to bring the New Deal era to a close.

Social Security still provides income and ... Social Security was originally created as part of FDR’s New Deal to help solve the ... Since the original passage of the Social Security Act ...