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The Social Security Act established a payroll tax to provide retirement pensions, but government mismanagement has depleted its funds. Find out more about the challenges facing the program.
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Question 1 - 10 This Depression era legislation set up a payroll tax that would allow retirees to receive a retirement pension after reaching a designated age. Currently its funds are running out due to poor government management of the program.
Answer 1 – 10 Social Security act - SSA
Question 1 - 20 FDR proposed his “Court Packing” plan because?
Answer 1 – 20 The Supreme Court had begun to rule many New Deal programs unconstitutional
Question 1 - 30 The decrease in unemployment numbers during the Great Depression can be deceiving/tricky because?
Answer 1 – 30 Many of the jobs being created were only temporary government relief jobs
Question 1 - 40 The sudden spike in unemployment from 1937-1938 is most likely a result of?
Answer 1 – 40 FDR beginning to cut funding for New Deal jobs due to concerns over the growing national debt
Question 1 - 50 FDR’s regular radio addresses to the nation to inform people of what he was trying to accomplish were called?
Answer 1 – 50 Fireside Chats
Question 2 - 10 The most likely reason for the unemployment rate more than doubling from 1929-1930 was?
Answer 2 – 10 “Black Tuesday” and overproduction mixed with underconsumption in America
Question 2 - 20 The end of the Great Depression was ultimately brought about by?
Answer 2 – 20 World War II
Question 2 - 30 Though most historians agree that the “New Deal” did not lift America out of the Great Depression, what was FDR able to do for America through his New Deal Programs?
