Social Security for Farm People
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The 12 million people working in American agriculture are still without protection against the personal causes of insecurity. No program to meet the risks of illness, accident, disability, old age, and premature death has yet been provided for them. When the principal breadwinner of a farm family, be he an operator or a paid worker, is stricken by long illness, old age, or death, the family has only its own resources at its command. Too often these resources are inadequate to meet such contingencies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011