SOCIAL SECURITY ADOPTION

Social security Adoption



Abstract

The reason of this paper is to address the development of a communal Security Act through its historical phases. Social Security has two distinct meanings in American life. Specifically it refers to the vintage age insurance system established by the communal Security proceed of 1935. It furthermore recounts a much broader goal: the defence for all people against a broad variety of pain, encompassing poverty, homelessness, disability, and sick health. The substantial distinction between the two meanings states much about America's approach to communal deprivation. The communal Security proceed represented a sharp departure from previous American practice. The joined States had conventionally celebrated individualism and voluntarism, and except for conflict veterans the national government former to 1929 did not supply vintage age retirement benefits, job loss compensation, wellbeing insurance, and public assistance. The large Depression of the early 1930s, although, conceived widespread pain initating the government government to take action, because states, localized groups and personal benevolent societies neither had the economic resources to contend with the growing desires of the American people. The management of leader FranklinD. Roosevelt answered to these stresses by signing the communal Security proceed in 1935. In the long run, although, the old age protection system increased to become America's most important communal program.

Social security Adoption

Introduction

The annals of communal security as we understand it now can be connected back to early Greek civilization. The Greeks financial security was olive oil, in which it was stored in an amphora or jug. Through this method the olive oil could be stored for relatively long time span, therefore supplying economic security for themselves in times of need (Social Security Online, n.d.).

According to Jansson (2001), in medieval Europe, the feudal system was the cornerstone of financial security, with the feudal lord responsible for the financial survival of the serfs employed on the estate. The feudal lord had economic security as long as there was a steady provide of serfs to work the estate, and the serfs had economic security only so long as they were fit sufficient to supply their labor. Serf's worked to rendezvous rudimentary obligations and subsistence of needs and no more. During the middle ages the concept of charity as a prescribed financial arrangement furthermore emerged for the first time. Moreover the Catholic places of worship was affiliated with a governmental institution with jurisdiction of the levies, laws and courts. The place of worship presumed communal welfare functions by supplying nourishment and lodging to the persons who were famished, ill or transient. It was the Church's canon law that established values about vagrancy and poverty throughout the Middle Ages, long before the secular authorities had evolved polices (Jansson, 2001,p. 30). Land itself was an significant pattern of financial security for those who belongs to it or who dwelled on farms. Through the introduction of money the gradual unraveling of Feudalism would cause uncertainty. Serfs, who only searched subsistence, started to hoard cash which they bought into in ...