Most of the problems of the United States are related to the economy. One of the major issues facing the country today is social security. The United States was one of the last major industrialized nations to establish a social security system. In 1911, Wisconsin passed the first state workers compensation law to be held constitutional. At that time, most Americans believed the government should not have care for the aged, disabled or needy. But such …showed first 75 words of 1851 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1851 total…withstood forty years of changing economic conditions and greater concern of public welfare. What would replace the system, if the critics had their way? SOCIAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVES The social security system has saved an untold number of people from disaster throughout many years. Many of the nations old people- some as young as sixty-two, a few over a hundred, live from Social Security paycheck to Social security paycheck, with this government program as their livelihood.