Ways and Means-Social Security and Old Age Pensions: Townsend Plan., 1957-1958

Discussion of H.R.7086; "To amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit retirement by all persons in the United States at the age of sixty years with benefits that will assure full participation by elderly persons generally in prevailing national standards of living, to provide like benefits for disabled persons, and to provide benefits for certain female heads of families and for certain children; to provide for the establishment and operation of this system of social security by an equitable gross income tax; and for other purposes" (John A. Blatnik-Minnesota), and H.R.8099; "To amend title II of the Social Security act to permit retirement by all persons in the United States at the age of sixty years with benefits that will assure full participation by elderly persons generally in prevailing national standards of living, to provide like benefits for disabled persons, and to provide benefits for certain female heads of families and for certain children; to provide for the establishment and operation of this system of social security by an equitable gross-income tax; and for other purposes" (Usher L. Burdick-North Dakota). General correspondence, clippings, and memos. Correspondents include John A. Blatnik.