Facing old age

a—THE COST TO THE TAX-PAYER, 46 b—THE COST TO THE INSTITUTIONAL INMATES OR RECIPIENTS OF CHARITY, 51 c—THE COST TO INDUSTRY, 58 d—THE COST TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION AND SOCIETY...

a—AUSTRIA, 280 b—CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, 282 c—CHILE, 283 d—FRANCE, 284 e—GERMANY, 288 f—GREECE, 295 g—ICELAND, 295 h—ITALY, 296 i—LUXEMBURG, 300 j—NETHERLANDS, 302 k—NORWAY, 304 l—POR...

APPENDIX A—BILL INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MCNARY, 339 B—BILL PRESENTED BY THE COMMISSION TO THE 1921 PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATURE, 342 a—ADMINISTRATION, 343 b—ALLOWANCE, 344 c—QUA...

The progress of a nation may be marked by the care which it provides for its aged. The nineteenth-century doctrine of laissez-faire, as applied to aged and superannuated wage-ea...

The prospects of living to old age are becoming increasingly better as methods of sanitation and public health are improved. According to the United States Life Tables, the Amer...

The aged, for the purposes of our discussion, may be classified into three distinct groups. First, the small group of wealthy and independent persons whose economic and social s...

No social order can for long remain indifferent toward the problems and difficulties confronting some of its members, without directly or indirectly paying the price for its unc...

The causes that make for dependency in old age, like those which make for poverty in general, are many and varied. The forces which underlie the brutal sweeping aside of thousan...

The wages earned by the labouring classes in the United States are too intimately related to aged dependency and too important not to require the most thorough and careful consi...

“One of the misfortunes most feared by the labouring class is that of unemployment. ‘Why stand ye here all the day idle?—’ ‘Because no man hath hired us,’ presents a picture in...

The obligation of the State to take care of the indigent aged has been partially recognized by the establishment of almshouses, and county infirmaries, and by the granting of ou...

The problem of the aged government employé is of paramount importance, especially from the viewpoint of the tax-payer. There can hardly be a greater waste of the tax-payer’s mon...

The earliest forms of mutual assistance and insurance benefits organized by the middle and working classes were through the agency of fraternal organizations. Many of these had...

A pension may be defined as a regular allowance or payment made in consideration of past services. Pensions were granted first by kings and other royalties to persons who distin...

The movement for the inauguration of a definite and constructive social policy in regard to the superannuated workers in the U. S. is of comparatively recent origin. Aside from...

The first State efforts to relieve the problems of old age were generally made by means of some form of voluntary or subsidized savings insurance. The adoption of the compulsory...

A system of old age insurance for salaried persons and several other classes, was advocated in Austria as early as 1888, about the time the German Old Age Insurance plan was ado...

In 1815, the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska passed an Act providing for the payment of pensions to aged persons. Under this law “any pioneer of Alaska, regardless of sex...