John B. Andrews
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John B. Andrews was an advocate for a social insurance program of the 1930s in the United States. He founded on of the two leading organizations advocating a social insurance program (the other was the American Association for Social Security founded by Abraham Epstein).
Andrews' group was more conservative than Epstein's. He favored privately funded social insurance such as from employer-employee contributions. Because his plan was not a state-funded program, it became known as the "American Plan." It was adopted by Wisconsin in 1932.
Andrews' program was more consistent with the New Dealer's views on the matter which eventually became the Social Security Act of 1935.