What we all need to understand about Social Security
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The very first “social security” program in the United States of America, was a program to assist widows; which gave widows a license to sell ale. (Hence the term ale-wives.) Yes, it was. Originally, the term “social security” described any program intended to help people with limited resources: the poor, the disabled, the socially deprived such as orphans, the ill, the mentally ill, and the indigent elderly. Read more.