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Before Social Security, Fillmore County Poor Farm Helped The Poor And Aging     

With Congressional conversations underway regarding Social Security, Amy Jo Hahn takes us back in history to the “poor farms” that helped address poverty and aging prior to when Social Security was enacted in 1935.

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