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FDR: “The question of employing on the Works Program, persons who are eligible under the Federal law for Social Security…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1938
The question of employing on the Works Program, persons who are eligible under the Federal law for Social Security benefits, is one to which the Works Progress Administration has given consideration over a long period of time.
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Democratic · New York

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Letter on Employment by the WPA of Social Security Recipients

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