“Teachers have staged protests in recent weeks in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky and now Colorado. … More than a million teachers don't have Social Security to fall back on. To understand why, we need to go back to Aug. 14, 1935. That's when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the original Social Security Act. 'This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to at least 50 million of our citizens,' Roosevelt intoned. But, of those 50 million citizens, one big group was left out: state and local workers.”
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