Hey! I betcha you didn’t know this about Wisconsin.
We helped create the idea for Social Security AND put it into place as the FIRST SOCIAL SECURITY ACT in 1935.
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#Wisconsin #Republican #democrats #mandelabarnes #tonyevers #SocialSecurityFairnessAct #socialsecurity
Background:
John R. Commons, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, helped create the American Association for Labor Legislation - Group that advocated for national health insurance- on February 15, 1906.
This group held the driving force behind…
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…”worker’s compensation, occupational health & safety, and child labor laws” (snaccooperative.org/view/54028225)
1909 the first worker’s compensation came through!
1911 - “Workmen’s Compensation Act” enacted May 3rd, effective as of September 1st, SUPPORTED by WI Supreme Court
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1913 - First wage law & identified inequalities such as Women and Minors not being paid.
1919 - Occupational diseases were added to the Worker’s compensation coverage
1926 - US Supreme Court ruled that WI’s Worker’s compensation Act is VALID
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1932 - First unemployment compensation law enacted in WI. This also led Governor Philip La Follette to sign the NATION’S first unemployment compensation law!!!
** 1933 ** - Arthur Altmeyer, born in DePere WI (around Green Bay), had the idea for Social Security and…
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…he was also a person on the President’s Committee for Economic Security!
1934 - Proposal for Social Security by Professor Altmeyer is sent to legislation! Professor Edwin Witte, taugh Dep. of Econ., helped Professor Altmeyer design the program in the summer! ✅
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In all, if it weren’t for Wisconsinites and the University of Wisconsin, none of us would have Social Security!
As a Wisconsinite I feel horrible that MAGA republicans believe that this RIGHT and ACT should be stripped away…
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…Why are you trying to strip away HISTORY? Valuable Wisconsinite history that has helped this WHOLE nation be able to stride along!
Not only that but we helped create the Social Security Disability program here in the good ol’ cheese state! 🧀🐄
Please, WI, vote to protect Wisconsin history!
YOUR Social Security that was created by WISCONSINITES!
Vote @TheOtherMandela @Tony4WI ! 💙
For USA & those reading, please spread this history thread! Many forgot who were behind Social Security’s creation 😱
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Sources:
snaccooperative.org/view/54028225
ssa.gov/history/wiscro…
dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/history/
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For those tagged please read my thread about how WI’s creation of Social Security above helped create the United States’ own Social Security! Important to share!! 🗳
@benwikler @GeorgeTakei @AOC @WhiteHouse @mattxiv @WisDems @tammybaldwin @sara4WI @MissDarkFaerie @David_Leavitt
I know this may not be seen but it’s a shot in the dark. If this thread is passed along I greatly thank you!!! 👏💙👏
Want to give thanks to my Education History prof. at UW-Madison I had last semester for teaching my whole class about this forgotten, yet crucial history 🥰
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