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With projections indicating that nearly one third of those entering the workforce today will face a career-ending disability at some point in their life, it is interesting to note how few people are familiar with the history of social security and how it provides benefits to disabled workers, not just retired persons. When consulting with social security disability lawyers , workers may want to ask about that history — though maybe not if they are being billed by the hour.

This history goes all the way back to the New Deal and President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1935, the Committee on Economic Security received a report detailing the many problems that occurred due to lost wages when a worker was disabled. These problems were much worse the longer the worker was unable to bring home a paycheck. As a result, when the Social Security Act was signed into law, it include provisions for providing benefits to assist those individuals.

Over the ensuing decades, a number of programs were developed to address the needs of Americans who were no longer able to work. This included supplemental income (SSI) for those who have retired as well as funds for blind or disabled workers. The programs also cover unemployment benefits due to loss of job, medical insurance and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

The entire system underwent review by the House Ways and Means Committee in 1974. Most of the programs in existence today were revised or expanded during that review.

While taking a morning shower, most people don’t stop to consider the ancient nature of the act in which they’re engaging. It might seem as if showering, with its need for nozzles and pipes and hot and cold running water, is a relatively recent invention in the history of humanity. However, original showers were most likely waterfalls, where people noticed that falling water rinsed the bather more cleanly and efficiently than ordinary bathing.

In early Egyptian and Mesopotamian history , the upper class of these societies had indoor shower rooms where servants might bathe them in privacy; although these first showers weren’t sophisticated, consisting mainly of drainage systems, without pumps, making it necessary to carry the water into the room. The first showers that were at all similar to modern showers were built by the ancient Greeks, who had an aqueduct and sewage system capable of pumping water into and out of group shower rooms.

Humanity took a detour from cleanliness during the Middle Ages , after the fall of the Roman Empire, and it wasn’t until the early 18th century that the world recovered the technology of the Greeks and Romans with the invention of the English Regency Shower. By the last half of the 20th Century, showers became far more popular than bathtubs, allowing for the development of many types of showers, everything from an air shower to a steam shower .