SOCIAL SECURITY SUCCESS in 4 Charts:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122544/why-social-security-success-four-charts

In 2013, Social Security was responsible for dropping the poverty rate of disabled people from over 50 percent to a little over 20 percent. In that same year, Social Security kept the poverty rate of elderly black Americans to just over 20 percent; otherwise, the rate would have been closer to 60 percent. Without Social Security, the overall poverty rate in America would have approached 25 percent, but with Social Security was roughly 15 percent.