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GuyC59

On this Day in Social Security History:

#SocialSecurityat90 
#StrongerTogether

4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: congress.gov/crs-product/R4618

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/
 
More Social Security history: ssa.gov/history & #SSAHistGWC 

#SocialSecurity #socialinsurance #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #healthcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration

Göttingen Campus

New events by #GCPostdocNetwork: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-e

Organised for researchers across the Campus and everyone welcome. Postdoc Socials tomorrow (Thur 3 April) and 8 May. Or check out the #ScienceComm meet-up on 11 April, then join researchers on a Walk&Talk meet-up later that evening or on 16 May.

#Interdisciplinary #GetOutOfTheLab #StrongerTogether
And if you are a postdoc, get with the Network: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Finding solutions together!

In bar with blue posters on the table about postdoc eents in Göttingen. Researchers discussing things in background. One person holds poster with writing on and chemical symbols.
Shaman

@raymondpert One might also call it "climate of complicity” universities chose over "living up to your values".
Let's face it: They need to stick together and remain true to their mission and publicly show their defiance to nonsense Executive Orders like DEI directives. If these large universities with their billion dollar endowments cannot afford to stand up for free speech, their students and staff, science, and independent governance, they don't deserve surviving.
Have they not learned from history that appeasing a fascist regime is not going to work? But maybe they're just another business trying to keep the money flowing for as long as they can regardless of the consequences ... #StrongerTogether #FightTheRight #StayTrue #MomentOfTruth

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