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June 1987 (Volume 65)
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Rashi Fein
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No living American has done more to change the face of our nation than Wilbur Cohen. An arguable proposition, until one realizes that there is not an American who is unaffected by the programs he helped build. He participated in the design of the Social Security Act, a measure that addressed unemployment compensation, old age assistance, aid to dependent children, maternal and child health, child welfare services, crippled children’s services, federal appropriations for public health—and, of course, old age insurance, the program most of us think of today when we say “Social Security.”
Author(s): Rashi Fein
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Volume 65, Issue 2 (pages 149–152) Published in 1987
