Epsteins work galvanized public opinion and made passage of social security legislation possible. He remained a strong advocate of health Insurance and a reformed unemploy. ment Insurance system until his death In 1942. At the time. he had been working on a plan for postwar social security to adapt the system to meet the specific needs of a society in the process of demobilization. Mr. Epstein was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States in 1910. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and later studied at Columbia University. He was an acclaimed lecturer on social Insurance at New York University and Brooklyn College.
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