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Social Security Turns 75: How Healthy Is It?

By Andrea StoneAug 12th 2010 – 5:42PM
Cassandra Hubbart, AOL

Cassandra Hubbart, AOL

WASHINGTON (Aug. 12) -- Is Social Security showing its age? When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed "old-age" benefits into law on Aug. 14, 1935, nearly half of men and almost 40 percent of women died before they were old enough to cash in. The program later grew to include disability benefits and Medicare, which...

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