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Olga Pierce has been a reporter at ProPublica since 2009, specializing in data-driven stories. She is a winner of the 2011 Livingston Award for National Reporting and received 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.

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What Health Care Reform Means For: Small Businesses

Nov. 9, 2009, 12:02 p.m.

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

Nov. 3, 2009, 3:13 p.m.

What Health Care Reform Means For: The Uninsured

Nov. 2, 2009, 9:30 a.m.

Map: Is Your State’s Unemployment in Danger?

Oct. 27, 2009, 7:47 a.m.

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

Oct. 26, 2009, 2:52 p.m.

Chart: Medicare Drug Plan Architects Now Drug Company Lobbyists

Oct. 21, 2009, 9:50 a.m.

Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake

Oct. 20, 2009, 5:12 p.m.

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

Oct. 12, 2009, 8 a.m.

State Unemployment Borrowing Tops $15 Billion

Sept. 16, 2009, 2:48 p.m.

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

Sept. 14, 2009, 8:45 a.m.

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

Sept. 14, 2009, 8:45 a.m.

Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You

Sept. 8, 2009, 1:19 p.m.

Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You

Sept. 8, 2009, 1:19 p.m.

Stimulus Lobbying Disclosure Promise Still Not Fulfilled

Sept. 1, 2009, 2:32 p.m.

Fla. Unemployment Borrowing May Top $1 Billion

Aug. 31, 2009, 9:49 a.m.

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

Aug. 10, 2009, 7:04 a.m.

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

July 30, 2009, 11:32 a.m.

Dive In: More Obama Team Disclosure Docs

July 29, 2009, 9:56 a.m.

Illinois’s Unemployment Insurance Fund Goes Broke

July 17, 2009, 1:13 p.m.

Many States Leave Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed

July 2, 2009, 4:48 p.m.

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