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Social Security turns 89 years old this week. That’s nearly nine decades of providing baseline financial security to America’s retirees and their families - and since 1956, to people with disabilities. Today, 67 million people — or 1 in 5 U.S. residents — receive Social Security benefits. And in all these years, Social Security has never missed a payment. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law on Aug. 14, 1935, about half of the nation’s seniors lived in poverty. Many were living in actual poor houses. (As of 2021, only 8 percent of people over 65 fell beneath the poverty line.) “We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundr

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Strengthen and expand Social Security as it turns 89 ...Middle East

Strengthen and expand Social Security as it turns 89  ...Middle East