The Archive · 1934

Social Insurance Plan for

Washington, Jule 8

A vast scheme for social insurance was outlined in a message sent to Congress to-day by President Roosevelt with the object of providing security of livelihood in the United States.

The message stresses that funds necessary to provide social insurance [should be raised by contributions rather than by increasing general taxation. Various states, the President suggested, should meet a large part of the management costs and Teave' the Federal Government the task of.investing and safeguarding resorves—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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