The progressive Wisconsin Idea also promoted the statewide expansion of the University of Wisconsin through the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors John R. Commons and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensation program in the United States in 1932. Other Wisconsin Idea scholars at the university generated the plan that became the New Deal's Social Security Act of 1935, with Wisconsin expert Arthur J. Altmeyer playing the key role.Arthur J. Altmeyer, "The Wisconsin Idea and Social Security." Wisconsin Magazine of History (1958) 42#1: 19–25.
The progressive Wisconsin Idea also promoted the state,wide expansion of the University of Wisconsin through the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors John R. Commons and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensation program in the United States in 1932. Other Wisconsin Idea scholars at the university generated the plan that became the New Deal's Social Security Act of 1935, with Wisconsin expert Arthur J. Altmeyer playing the key role.Arthur J. Altmeyer "The Wisconsin Idea and Social Security." Wisconsin Magazine of History (1958) 42#1: 19–25.