- - Social Security, also known as the 'Old-Age Trust Fund', is the largest social program in th e United States. It's main fuction is to meet the needs of workers who are retired or disabled. On August 14, 1935 the Social Security Act became a law. There were a lot of problems and revisions in the process, but the program was finally put into effect. The country was in dire need of something, anything to get the …showed first 75 words of 1363 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1363 total…itself up with a program of long-term positive effects. ENDNOTES: 1'War and Post War Social Security', American Council on Public Affairs, Washingotn, D.C., 1942, p. 73 2'An American Philosophy of Social Security-Evolution and Issues', J. Douglas Brown, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972, P.7 3'The Great Depression 1929-1942', Dixon Webster, Quadrangle Books Inc., Chicago, 1971, p. 201 4'Social Security: From Crisis to Crisis?', Committee for Economic Development, Library of Congress, New York, N.Y., 1984, p. 5 , p. 201