German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his          and diplomatic talent, but his contributions to the society include many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19^th century, Germany,           other European nations,           an unusual outbreak of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing         .          in part by Christian sympathy for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to get the           of the socialist labor movement, Bismarck          the world’s first worker’s compensation law in 1884.
By 1908, the United States was the           industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. American’s injured workers could seek           in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers.         , employees had to prove that their injuries directly           employer’s lack of care and they themselves were ignorant about potential danger in the workplace. The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed in 1911, and the program soon           throughout the nation.
After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not        the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national           to study the problems workers’ compensation. Two years later, the committee issued 19 key recommendations,           one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.

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