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7 October
6:29 pm

Pre social security, you had nearly seventy percent of our seniors and elderly in this country living in abject poverty.

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Josh Turek, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate

6:29 pm
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Why we checked itThis is a specific historical statistic about pre-Social Security poverty rates among the elderly that can be checked against historical data.
What we foundThe pre-Social Security elderly poverty rate was very high — most credible sources place it above 50% in 1935 — but the specific figure of 'nearly 70%' is not directly supported for the pre-Social Security period and conflates estimates from different years and methodologies.
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