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This is Planet Money from NPR.
One of the greatest economic experiments in the history of the United States is in for its biggest test yet.
It's an experiment that started nearly 100 years ago.
Yeah.
Picture this.
The U.S. Has rapidly industrialized.
Millions of people have moved to cities for factory jobs.
And all this change is leaving one group of Americans behind.
Older Americans.
By the 1930s, more than half of elderly Americans are living in poverty.
The problem became particularly acute with the Great Depression.
People were calling on the government for help.
So President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a way to give older Americans money every month until they died.
Social security.
Social security.
This social security measure gives at least some protection.