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Olga Pierce

Olga Pierce is a reporter at ProPublica, specializing in data-driven stories.

Olga Pierce is a reporter, specializing in data-driven stories. Previously, she was deputy data editor at ProPublica.

She is a winner of the 2015 Deadline Club Award for Medical Reporting for her work on patient harm. In 2011 she received a Livingston Award for National Reporting and an honorable mention for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, both for her reporting on increasing corporate interference in the drawing of congressional districts. She also shared 2011 Scripps Howard and Society of Business Editors and Writers awards as part of a team focusing on foreclosures.

Olga has appeared on CBS News and C-SPAN, and her stories have been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and the Hindustan Times in New Delhi.

She is a graduate of the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting. Olga is fluent in Czech and has a bachelor’s in international economics from Georgetown University.

Foreclosure Crisis

Have You Worked in Loss Mitigation?

by Olga Pierce,

'Black Liquor,' the Sequel

The presence of some biofuel language in the health care reconciliation bill has been explained -- sort of. It has to do with a tax credit that was intended to make the health care bill seem cheaper, but doesn't, really.

by Olga Pierce,

Business Owners and Insiders: Tell Us How the Unemployment Insurance System Really Works

by Olga Pierce,

What Information Can You Share About the Unemployment Insurance System?

by Olga Pierce,

How Do Unemployment Issues Affect Your Business?

by Olga Pierce,

How Has Unemployment Affected You?

by Olga Pierce,

'Medicare Tax' Now to be Called 'Unearned Income Medicare Contribution'

Under the health care reconciliation proposal, individuals with earnings over $200,000 and couples with earnings over $250,000 will have to fork over 3.8 percent of their capital gains. But the bill isn't calling this a tax.

by Olga Pierce,

Biofuel/Health Care Mystery Demystified

A provision in the health care reconciliation bill could save the government billions by curbing a biofuel tax credit. A recent change in the credit has rewarded paper companies for simply continuing a process they have used for decades.

by Olga Pierce,

Biofuel Tax Credit Language in Final Health Care Bill: Help Us Understand Why

by Olga Pierce,

Why You Should Check Out the Health Care Bills Side by Side

ProPublica offers a side-by-side comparison of the Senate health care bill and the one likely to go before the House this weekend, highlighting the changes the House proposes to make.

by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson,