Read the passage from a statement given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
How did the law described in this passage benefit
Americans?
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part
fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years,
with its startling industrial changes, has tended
more and more to make life insecure. Young people
have come to wonder what would be their lot when
they came to old age. The man with a job has
wondered how long the job would last.
-Presidential statement on signing the Social
Security Act,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
August 14, 1935
O It provided support for people who could no longer
work.
It put Americans to work rebuilding the country's
infrastructure.
O It offered temporary relief for people who became
unemployed.
O It gave workers the right to form unions and bargain
collectively.