Currently, 48 million Americans are on Social Security. That includes 30 million retired workers and 3.1 million dependents and 6.7 million survivors, a group that includes children who have lost a parent and, consequently, any means of support. Also, nearly 8 million disabled workers and their dependents receive benefits.
It’s a program begun in the dark days of America’s Great Depression and was in no small part modeled by progressive thinkers here at the University of Wisconsin who signed on to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal for the American people.