Olga Pierce

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

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - March 19, 2010 4:59 pm EDT

Silly ProPublicans. We expected the health care reform bill to include language pertaining to health care. And most of it does, except this paragraph that appears to tackle the scourge of … ashy biofuels?

ELIMINATION OF UNINTENDED APPLICATION OF CELLULOSIC BIOFUEL PRODUCER CREDIT.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40(b)(6)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:

(iii) EXCLUSION OF UNPROCESSED FUELS.—The term ‘cellulosic biofuel’ shall not include any fuel if—

“(I) more … more

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

by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson, ProPublica - March 19, 2010 12:31 pm EDT

Kansas and Vermont Are the Latest Unemployment Insurance Debtors

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - March 9, 2010 11:22 am EDT

Mass. Unemployment Insurance Fund Goes Into Red

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - February 22, 2010 12:57 pm EDT

Unemployment Insurance Borrowing Now Greater Than During 1980s Recession

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - February 5, 2010 10:26 am EDT

Explaining Obama’s Proposed ‘Budget Freeze’

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - February 2, 2010 11:44 am EDT

Unemployment Insurance Funds in Colorado and New Hampshire Go Bankrupt—And Start Borrowing

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 27, 2010 8:40 am EDT

Do You Have Experience Dealing With Your State’s Unemployment Insurance System?

by Amanda Michel and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 21, 2010 4:13 pm EDT

Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 20, 2010 12:42 am EDT

Payroll Taxes Increase for Many Employers Across the U.S.

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 20, 2010 12:33 am EDT

How We Did the Math on Our Unemployment Insurance Tracker

by Jeff Larson and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 19, 2010 10:59 pm EDT

Are You a Virginia Senior Who Gets Both Social Security and Unemployment Insurance?

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 5, 2010 10:37 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means for: ‘Young Invincibles’

by Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - December 22, 2009 6:00 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means for: Medicaid Recipients

by Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - December 7, 2009 10:37 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means for: Those Already Insured

by Olga Pierce and Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - December 1, 2009 9:00 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means for: The Underinsured

by Olga Pierce and Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - November 24, 2009 9:12 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means for: Medicare Programs

by Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - November 17, 2009 10:21 am EDT

What Health Care Reform Means For: Small Businesses

by Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - November 9, 2009 12:02 pm EDT

In Face of Bankrupt Trust Funds, Virginia Cuts Unemployment Benefits, Nevada Weighs Options

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - November 3, 2009 3:13 pm EDT

What Health Care Reform Means For: The Uninsured

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - November 2, 2009 9:30 am EDT

Map: Is Your State’s Unemployment in Danger?

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - October 27, 2009 7:47 am EDT

Poor Unemployment Insurance Planning Adds Extra Burden to Conn., South Dakota Employers

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - October 26, 2009 2:52 pm EDT

Chart: Medicare Drug Plan Architects Now Drug Company Lobbyists

by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson and Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica - October 21, 2009 9:50 am EDT

Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - October 20, 2009 5:12 pm EDT

Alabama’s Unemployment Insurance Woes Have Roots in a Happier Time

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - October 12, 2009 8:00 am EDT

State Unemployment Borrowing Tops $15 Billion

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 16, 2009 2:48 pm EDT

Health Care Reform: Search the Competing Bills—and See What Hoops They Have to Jump Through

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 14, 2009 8:45 am EDT

Health Care Reform: Search the Competing Bills—and See What Hoops They Have to Jump Through

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 14, 2009 8:45 am EDT

Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 8, 2009 1:19 pm EDT

Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 8, 2009 1:19 pm EDT

Stimulus Lobbying Disclosure Promise Still Not Fulfilled

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - September 1, 2009 2:32 pm EDT

Fla. Unemployment Borrowing May Top $1 Billion

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - August 31, 2009 9:49 am EDT

California’s Hidden Deficit: Unemployment Insurance Fund Owes $2.6 Billion

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - August 10, 2009 7:04 am EDT

Unemployment Insurance Programs in Minnesota and Texas Are Now in the Red

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 30, 2009 11:32 am EDT

Dive In: More Obama Team Disclosure Docs

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 29, 2009 9:56 am EDT

How (If at All) Has the Health Care System Failed You?

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 27, 2009 12:42 pm EDT

Illinois’s Unemployment Insurance Fund Goes Broke

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 17, 2009 1:13 pm EDT

Many States Leave Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 2, 2009 4:48 pm EDT

Chart: Has Your State Left Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed?

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - July 2, 2009 3:46 pm EDT

Torture Tales and Obama Hogging the Log

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 16, 2009 10:00 am EDT

Afghanistan’s K Street Complaints and HUD’s Duds

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 9, 2009 9:30 am EDT

In Idaho, Big Business Tax Increase During Recession Was Part of the Unemployment Plan

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 8, 2009 2:07 pm EDT

Meet the Workers Behind the Unemployment Numbers

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 5, 2009 8:20 am EDT

States’ Unemployment Insurance Funds Founder After Years of Poor Planning

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 4, 2009 1:30 pm EDT

Is Your State’s Unemployment System in Danger?

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 4, 2009 10:38 am EDT

Unemployment Insurance Buckles After Years of Underfunding

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 3, 2009 2:00 pm EDT

Number of States With Low Balances and Unsustainable Taxes

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 3, 2009 2:00 pm EDT

First States to Run Out of Money for Unemployment

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 3, 2009 2:00 pm EDT

New Rules for the Lobbyists and Their Proxies

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - June 1, 2009 2:47 pm EDT

More Obama Nominee Ethics Agreements

by Amanda Michel and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - May 26, 2009 1:52 pm EDT

Murtha’s Middlemen and Telemarketing’s Tricks of the Trade

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - May 26, 2009 10:38 am EDT
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Olga Pierce is a recent graduate of the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting. Before Columbia, she covered health policy for United Press International in Washington where, in addition to writing stories about Medicare Part D, uninsured Americans and AIDS vaccine, she appeared as a commentator on C-SPAN and went to Camp David as a White House pool reporter. Her stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Hindustan Times, Lincoln Journal-Star and other newspapers. Olga is fluent in Czech and has a bachelor’s in international economics from Georgetown University.

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