securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading. The Securities and Exchange Commission specifically provided relief for the stock market to get it running again so america could regulate the economy. Also part of the New Deal in 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act which created the Social Security Administration. The Social Security Act was passed by congress as part of the Second New Deal. The act was an attempt to limit what were seen dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. The act provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed, and a lump-sum benefit at death.
To this day the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Social Security Acts are still in effect. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today is responsible for administering seven major laws that govern the securities industry. They are: the Securities Act of 1933, the securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and most recently the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006. The enforcement authority given by Congress allows the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring civil enforcement actions against individuals or companies alleged to have committed accounting fraud, provided false information, or engaged in insider trading or other violations of the securities law. The Securities and Exchange Commission also works with criminal law enforcement agencies to prosecute individuals and companies alike for offenses which include a criminal violation. The Social Securities Acts and Social Security Administration toady are the most popular government program and touches the life of every worker
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America by having them protected if anything happens to them and they cant work. How Social Security work is if you are ever in an accident and you are paralyzed and can never work again Social Security will send you a little bit of money each month to help you survive. The outcomes of its use today are, there are less people put on the street because they are to old to work or they cant work because they are injured.
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