N inety-two years ago this month—Saturday, March 4, 1933, to be exact—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ... and raised his 2025 inflation forecast by 20 basis points to 2.5%.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, ... Her first check was for $22.54, the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $420.15 today.

The only other presidents who have been able to do that were Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt," said Todd Belt, a political analyst. The American Rescue Plan sent COVID-19 relief ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desk is shown at his library as a visitor examines information at the national historic site in Hyde Park on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Roosevelt, who took office in 1933 and steered the U.S. economy through the Great Depression and World War II, ushered in the first phase of the New Deal within his first 100 days.