Reminiscences of Ida Craven Merriam : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Economist; interviewee married Mylon Merriam.

Scope and Contents

Family background and childhood; education: Wellesley College BA 1925, University of Chicago, Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, PhD 1928; Social Security Act, 1935; Bureau of Research and Statistics for Social Security Administration: attitudes of various administrations toward social security, Assistant Director of Research and Statistics, Director of Division of Program Research, Assistant Commissioner of Research and Statistics; Medicare program; definition of poverty; women and social security; international studies and activities, publications; discrimination against women; post retirement years: awards, views on feminism, crises in social security.

Subjects

• Cheek, Jeannette, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Economists--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Merriam, Ida Craven, 1904-
• Oral histories.
• Social security--United States.
• United States. Social Security Administration.
• Women's rights.
• Women--Employment.
• Women in the civil service--Interviews.

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