HAZARDS OF LIFE
Roosevelt Formulates Protective Plan BILL INTRODUCED Pensions, Annuities and Insurance Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, January 17. A live-point programme designed for protection against what is termed the hazards of modern existence has been presented by President Roosevelt to Congress in a special message. This asked for the approval of old age pensions, a volunteer Federal annuity system, compulsory unemployment insurance, compulsory insurance against poverty-stricken old age. and large Federal grants to States in aid of needy and ill mothers, and an extension of the public health service. _ A Bill which was introduced carried appropriations of 109,000,000 dollars in the finance programme of the fiscal year, starting June 1, 1935, and authorising the spending of more than 200,000,000 yearly thereafter.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 7
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122HAZARDS OF LIFE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 7
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