The War ON and FOR Social Security: some reading suggestions

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Bruce Webb over @DK is the founder of the DK group Social Security Defenders, here he brings some interesting facts to light.

Well ready or not a dkos Social Security blogathon is coming your way March 25-29 #HandsOffMySS. Spearheaded by Kossack Roger Fox you can expect some big names from the outside (including my pal/mentor Dean Baker) plus hot advocacy from mad as hell Kossacks. And some dryasdust numbers stuff from me.

But since there are always some folk who like to come to the first day of the Grad Seminar having already read the whole syllabus, I thought I would make some reading suggestions. In this case on the history of the War ON and the War FOR Social Security.

The first stop is the official online history of SSA from SSA.gov/history Historical Background And Development Of Social Security. The whole thing is interesting enough but those interested in the development of what we know as Social Security today could safely scroll down the the section titled Committee on Economic Security (CES), the actual 1934 designers of the programs first implemented by the Social Security Act of 1935.

For the second and third and other stops follow me below the Orangy thingamabob.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/14/1194081/-The-War-ON-and-FOR-Social-Security-some-reading-suggestions