before social security and medicare
many old people were left in terrible circumstances because they were too old to work
and in the private sector many companies have cheated senior employees out of receving a pension and a healthcare plan
for example if it took 20 years for an employee to get retirement benefits , in the private sector, they would fire the employees in the 19th year
so many old people before social security and medicare had to eat dog and cat food to survive
many faced living with diseases without getting insurance and treatment
some faced homelessness
economy benefits too in that social welfare schemes help the bottom line and profit margins of hospitals, grocery stores and apartment building owners. since social security income once started comes every month...these sectors of the economy receive some of that money too every month in form of rent, grocery, Co pay, etc
much of the social welfare movement for seniors had started when the government refused to pay for the pensions for those who fought in world war one. thousands of veterans came to Washington DC to protest and fight this injustice. this and other labor protests went noticed by theodore and franklin roosevelt.
franklin roosevelt was the president who really started the social welfare programs for seniors over coming the protests of republicans and probably some in his party
One particular organization that fought for racial equality was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded in 1909. For about the first 20 years of its existence, it tried to persuade Congress and other legislative bodies to enact laws that would protect African Americans from lynchings and other racist actions. Beginning in the 1930s, though, the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund began to turn to the courts to try to make progress in overcoming legally sanctioned discrimination. From 1935 to 1938, the legal arm of the NAACP was headed by Charles Hamilton Houston. Houston, together with Thurgood Marshall, devised a strategy to attack Jim Crow laws by striking at them where they were perhaps weakest—in the field of education. Although Marshall played a crucial role in all of the cases listed below, Houston was the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund while Murray v. Maryland and Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada were decided. After Houston returned to private practice in 1938, Marshall became head of the Fund and used it to argue the cases of Sweat v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents of Higher Education.
Non Metal
brittle, poor conductor for heat poor conductor of electricity, dull surface
Metal
malleable, Good Conductor for electricity, Good Conductor of heat, shiny surface
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The Mayans mainly lived where there were no lakes or rivers. Because of that, they had to do something to adapt or they wouldn't survive. They adapted to their environment by doing things like collecting rain water to use for crops.
