<span>D. Younger workers feared that they would not have sufficient income after they retired.
The other answers aren't accurate. Nothing was stopping anyone from investing their personal funds in the stock market. Birthrates in 2005 (when Bush offered his proposal) were at 14 births for every 1,000 members of the US population. In 1935, when Social Security was first enacted, the birth rate in the US was 18.7 births for every 1,000 members of the population. And 1935 was a low year due to the Great Depression. Birth rates in the 1920s and then again in the 1950s were at 20+ per 1,000 members of the population. Indeed, it's the DECLINE in birth rates that played a role in weakening the funding of the government's Social Security system. More older persons were reaching retirement age, seeking to draw Social Security benefits, and there were less younger workers now paying into the system. Those younger workers feared that before they'd reach retirement age themselves, the Social Security system would become bankrupt.</span>
The government is the political/bureaucratic system that runs the state. A state is composed of territory, population, sovereignty.
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What are the effects of climate change?
rising maximum temperatures.
rising minimum temperatures.
rising sea levels.
higher ocean temperatures.
an increase in heavy precipitation (heavy rain and hail)
shrinking glaciers.
thawing permafrost.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlawed discrimination in public facilities, but it was declared unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court. In the 1896 case of Plessy v.s. Ferguson, the verdict that separate but equal was constitutional led to the creation of Jim Crow laws that segregated businesses and public places.
