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Vancouver Sun
"This is our opportunity to get the message out to the world that our government could end poverty and homelessness. It’s about housing supply, low incomes and low wages. There is no excuse for it and we hope the visitors to Vancouver will be appalled by Canada’s record on poverty," said event organizer Wendy Pederson of the Raise the Rates Coalition, a coalition of community groups and organizations concerned with poverty and homelessness in B.C.
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President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act in 1935. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins can be seen standing behind Roosevelt. The Act provided pensions, a federal-state unemployment insurance system, and federal funds for state and local "relief" (welfare) programs. The original plan was meant to include health insurance but this element was dropped, largely because of opposition from doctors. Old age pensions had become a major political issue. However, many oldsters favored the much-more-generous Townsend Plan. As a result, Social Security - which was a radical proposal for its time - became the moderate alternative to Townsend.
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