Peter Gosselin

Peter Gosselin covers aging for ProPublica as a contributing reporter. In more than three decades as a journalist, he has reported on the U.S. and global economies for, among others, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. He is the author of “High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families,” for which he devised new data techniques to show that economic risks were being shifted from the broad shoulders of business and government to the backs of working households. Peter he has been a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, chief speechwriter to the treasury secretary, and an economic adviser to the original Department of Health and Human Services team implementing the Affordable Care Act.