Besides providing funds to those in need, which of the following may have been another goal of the Social Security Act?

to encourage older workers to retire so younger workers had more jobs available
to remove the cost of caring for blind or injured workers from private companies
to help older citizens gain important financial management skills after banking failures
to provide a safety net for farmers and other agricultural workers if crop prices dropped again

Question

Besides providing funds to those in need, which of the following may have been another goal of the Social Security Act?

 to encourage older workers to retire so younger workers had more jobs available
 to remove the cost of caring for blind or injured workers from private companies
 to help older citizens gain important financial management skills after banking failures
 to provide a safety net for farmers and other agricultural workers if crop prices dropped again

wwhitlock · Answer

The first answer sounds like Keynesian economics as is the Social Security system.