The Social Security Act was signed on August 14, 1935. It provided financial security on focusing in on the sick, old, fatherless children, and the unemployed. The act provided benefits to the retired and unemployed, by using the current employed workers, tax would be deducted from their paycheck and would be transferred to those who are retired. With benefits along with the Works Progress Administration, which provided jobs mostly for the unskilled and moved them to public works governmental projects to provide them jobs and a stable income. The WPA funded the unskilled and even the native indians. “The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects”(Wikipedia) Through these acts, the nation’s unemployment rate dropped by Nearly twenty five percent up to 1945.…