Nancy Altman
Nancy Altman is an American lawyer, educator, and Social Security Advisory Board member. She is president of Social Security Works.
Education
[edit]Altman has an AB from Harvard University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1]
Career
[edit]Altman was a tax lawyer with Covington & Burling.[2] She was a legislative assistant to John Danforth.[3]
Altman was Alan Greenspan's assistant on the Commission that created the 1983 Amendments to Social Security.[4]
She taught at Harvard Kennedy School.[5]
Altman was appointed to the Social Security Advisory Board[6] in 2017 and reappointed in 2024.[7]
She is a founding board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.[8]
Books
[edit]- The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble (2005)[9]
- Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All (2015) with Eric R. Kingson
- The Truth About Social Security: The Founders’ Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings (2018)[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Employment, United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging Subcommittee on Retirement Income and (1992). Congressional Symposium on Women and Retirement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Retirement [sic] of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 24, 1992. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-039697-7.
- ^ Domhoff, G. William (21 June 2019). The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century: How They Won, Why Liberals and Labor Lost. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-01174-6.
- ^ Myers, Robert Julius; Vernaci, Richard L. (2010). Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security. ACTEX Publications. ISBN 978-1-56698-766-0.
- ^ Jacobs, Alan M. (28 March 2011). Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49611-7.
- ^ Employment, United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging Subcommittee on Retirement Income and (1992). Congressional Symposium on Women and Retirement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Retirement [sic] of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 24, 1992. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-039697-7.
- ^ Dayen, David (19 May 2022). "Non-Union Social Security Judges Doing Same Work as Their Union Counterparts". The American Prospect.
- ^ "Nancy Altman Reappointed to SSAB | SSAB". 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Nancy Altman -".
- ^ Alter, Jonathan (8 May 2007). The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-4601-9.
- ^ Malito, Alessandra (21 October 2018). "What you probably don't know about Social Security". MarketWatch.