Committee on Economic Security

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The Committee on Economic Security was a U.S. government body established during the New Deal to design comprehensive social welfare and insurance programs that led to the creation of Social Security.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal government committee
advisory body
appliesToJurisdiction United States federal government
appointedBy Franklin D. Roosevelt
contributedTo creation of the U.S. Social Security system
development of federal unemployment insurance in the United States
establishment of old-age benefits in the United States
country United States of America
createdBy Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
dissolved 1935
fieldOfWork economic policy
labor policy
social policy
formedByInstrument presidential executive order
hasChairperson Frances Perkins
hasKeyPerson Arthur J. Altmeyer
Edwin E. Witte
Wilbur J. Cohen
hasLanguage English
hasMember Attorney General Homer Cummings
Frances Perkins
Harold Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
hasPurpose to design a comprehensive program of economic security for the United States
to develop proposals for federal social insurance and welfare programs
hasShortName CES
historicalContext Great Depression
New Deal
inception 1934
influenced U.S. welfare state development
later expansions of Social Security
jurisdiction federal social welfare policy
legislativeOutcome Social Security Act of 1935
locatedIn Washington, D.C.
mainSubject child welfare
health insurance
old-age insurance
public assistance
social insurance
unemployment insurance
namedAfter economic security
partOf United States federal government
producedDocument Report of the Committee on Economic Security
reportsTo President of the United States
workPeriod New Deal era

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Social Security Board
precededBy
Committee on Economic Security ("Report of the Committee on Economic Security")
producedDocument

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