America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States

Financial Security and Personal Wealth deals extensively with the politics of social security, past and present. Solomon examines the presidential leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, both of whom revived the nations spirit in times of crisis, both of whom introduced economic policies that remain controversial to the present day. He also considers in detail contemporary efforts to rethink social security, focusing on fundamental reform of the social security system and the expansion and simplification of employer-sponsored retirement plans and individual retirement arrangements, and more broadly, discusses how to provide for the financial security of Americas senior populations.