Mary Pilon

Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign placed welfare reform at its center, claiming that his proposal would “end welfare as we have come to know it.”

Critics tried to dissuade the public from investing money with the female stockbrokers.

When times got tough during the Great Depression, people turned to diversions like Monopoly and Scrabble—cheap, reusable fun for a wide age range.

The father of the 401(k) is its biggest critic.