The UCLA Faculty Women's Club will be hosting yours truly on Tuesday, November 15, 1:30 PM, at the Faculty Center to talk about "Ham and Eggs Pensions in California." Below is the text from the above announcement.
FDR wasn't the only one who wanted to end destitution among the elderly. Even after Social Security became law, about 80 old-age pension proposals competed for support in California alone. The most prominent and sensational became known as"Ham and Eggs." It promised "$30 every Thursday" for each unemployed Californian aged 50 or older. The idea was that every pensioner deserved a square meal a day.
Professor Mitchell was formerly director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and has served as a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the International Labour Organisation. Prof. Mitchell has written Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). This book uses California's colorful experience with "pensionite" movements of the state's seniors from the 1920s through the 1940s to draw implications for the upcoming retirement of the baby boom and consequences for such programs as Medicare and Social Security.
Join us for refreshments following the program.
If you plan to attend, please confirm your attendance by emailing Rochelle Caballero,RRCab90272@cs.com
The full announcement with more info is at http://uclafwc.bol.ucla.edu/general/general.htm
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