A gala celebration of the 75th Birthday of Social Security, with Senator Patty Murray as featured speaker, will be held at the Greenwood Senior Activity Center, 525 N. 85tth Street in Seattle on Monday, August 16, starting at 1:30 p.m.
The event – complete with ceremonial birthday cake – is being co-sponsored by the senior center and the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans.
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. Throughout the 75 years of its existence, it has been the nation’s premier social insurance program, protecting millions of seniors, children and adults with disabilities from poverty.
The anniversary event will be a high point in the broadly-based campaign to expose and defeat efforts by the so-called “Fiscal Responsibility” commission to rob the Social Security trust funds to reduce the federal deficit.
The event will celebrate Social Security as a program for all generations, and will emphasize the need both to safeguard Social Security’s current benefits and to strengthen its protections for women, low-income workers and the oldest beneficiaries.
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