Unemployment insurance, then and now, 1935-85.

At the same time that solutions were being sought for the problems of people reaching old age without income and savings in the depressed American economy of the 1930’s, another incomemaintenance problem was being intensively scrutinized-unemployment among able-bodied workers of all ages. If poverty in old age represented a burden no longer to be accepted, so, too, did the involuntary unemployment of millions of American workers. The Great Depression resulted