Oral history interview with Herman Somers, 1968.

Biographical Note

Economist.

Scope and Contents

Experiences in Wisconsin with unemployment insurance and public welfare; detailed discussion of Madison group and their outlook: academic involvement in public affairs, economics as an instrument for action, health, old age, and unemployment insurance; establishment of social security; Medicare debate; Task Force on Health and Social Security, 1961; White House Conference on the Aged.

Subjects

• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Old age pensions.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Somers, Herman Miles, 1911-1991--Interviews.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States. Social Security Administration.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980.