Today: FDR signs the Social Security Act

The chief instigator and engineer was Frances Perkins

FDR signed the Social Security Act on this day in 1935. Writer Heather Cox Richardson reminds us why and how it came about in this opinion piece. (As a retiree who now benefits from this plan, I am very grateful!)

I subscribe to Richardson’s Letters from an American posts here on Substack and encourage you to read them and subscribe as well.

By the way, …