Our safety net was implemented in reaction to years and even generations of a lack of a living wage and a comfortable retirement. Back in the late 1800s, the working people of this country were in the same economic situation as many people are today, but they didn’t have the safety net to catch them if they fell onto hard times.
Here is a snip of a speech given by Jacob S. Coxey in 1944, Coxey was supposed to deliver the speech on May 1st, 1894 but was arrested by the Capitol Police for stepping on the grass..."
