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Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.60	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.56	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.56	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
0.55	1932	Norman Thomas	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over
0.54	1932	Norman Thomas	Sickness and health insurance	National health insurance
0.53	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age insurance under state laws
0.53	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone
0.53	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.52	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.51	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
0.51	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
0.49	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
0.47	1936	Frank Knox	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	The Social Security Act is 'unworkable and unsound' -- 'lip service to security'; a Republican administration would offer its own legislation
0.46	1932	John Nance Garner	Regulation of banks and securities	RFC loans to individuals and corporations generally — 'the Government into personal banking' (the Rainey bill)
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.46	1932	Herbert Hoover	Child welfare and schooling	Federal aid to states for child protection and health; continued White House conferences on children, homes and illiteracy
0.46	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
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
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning
0.45	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.45	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Housing and slum clearance	Extend the federal housing program toward adequate housing for those in slums; encourage private building
0.45	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
0.45	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.44	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity