Jan 7, 2009

Salem on History | Nevada and Montana Introduce the Old-Age Pension

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Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics
Subcategories: Laws, Acts, Legislation, Human Rights, Aging, Elderly, Old Age
Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
Geographical Location: Nevada, Montana
Date: March 5, 1923

Article abstract: The United States trailed far behind the rest of the industrial world in providing relief for older citizens until Nevada and Montana approved old-age pensions in 1923.

Summary of Event

At the same hour and on the same day, March 5, 1923, Montana governor Joseph M. Dixon and Nevada governor James C. Scrugham signed the first old-age pension legislation in the United States. The issue of providing a pension for America’s older population had become prominent in the years after World War I. Proponents of old-age pensions, propelled to a...

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Salem on History | Nevada and Montana Introduce the Old-Age Pension

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Summary of Event

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