Nancy J. Altman, a lawyer, is the author of The Battle for Social Security and a co-author, with Eric R. Kingson, of Social Security Works! and Social Security Works for Everyone! (both from The New Press). She co-founded Social Security Works in 2010 and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
In its discussion on social security, The New York Review of Books calls Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson's Social Security Works! "responsibly calculated but optimistic."