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Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over — Norman Thomas, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.64	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age insurance under state laws
0.64	1932	Norman Thomas	Sickness and health insurance	National health insurance
0.62	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.55	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all
0.52	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.48	1936	Alf Landon	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax
0.46	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.45	1936	Huey P. Long	Distribution of national income and purchasing power	Share Our Wealth: cap fortunes, guarantee every family a homestead and income
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget within a year or two out of rising national income, without new taxes
0.33	1932	Norman Thomas	Public works as employment policy	A $5 billion federal public-works program — roads, reforestation, slum clearance, workers' housing — and idle factories and land turned over to the unemployed
0.33	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.33	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Continue just treatment of war veterans and dependents
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	An "economic declaration of rights" — the right to make a living and the right to safe savings
0.32	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.32	1932	John Nance Garner	Veterans' bonus and benefits	The Patman cash bonus and $2.3 billion of greenbacks, passed by the House under his speakership
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Full relief for service-disabled veterans and dependents; review existing veterans' laws to remove inequalities and effect economies
0.30	1936	William Lemke	Minimum wages	A 'living annual wage' -- $1,800 for a family of five -- by federal law and a constitutional amendment if necessary
0.30	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.30	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child welfare and schooling	Maintain the Children's Bureau; keep children in school to sixteen; expand vocational education
0.29	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Defense of the eight-billion-dollar deficit as an investment in America
0.29	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Housing and slum clearance	Extend the federal housing program toward adequate housing for those in slums; encourage private building
0.29	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole