Amy Goldstein

Amy Goldstein

Amy Goldstein was born on April 8th, 1957 and is currently 69 years old.

Amy Goldstein is better known as a journalist focused on public policy, politics, and their impact on everyday life.

She has been working at The Washington Post as a staff writer for more than three decades, reporting from anywhere from Air Force One to homeless shelters.

Goldstein developed a reputation for energy in her reporting and for her deep investigations over months and even years. She became known as an expert in explaining intricate systems in everyday language.

For more than ten years, she was The Washington Post’s national health care policy reporter. She reported on efforts by the Conservatives and Democrats to transform the health care system.

Besides her reporting on health care, she wrote deep insights on housing, Social Security, welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, and the growing strain on Social Security.

In her very early years, she reported from the George W. Bush White House, covering national moments, including the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and various Supreme Court nominations.

She won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 for her coverage of the September 11 attacks and the government's response to them. Goldstein was also a finalist in 2009 when she worked on a medical care investigative series for detained immigrants.

Since 2024, she has been working at the Brookings Institution as a visiting fellow with a particular focus on economic security and health policy.

In her 2o17 book Janesville, Amy Goldstein chronicles what happened to Janesville, a small town in Wisconsin, when the General Motors assembly plant, which employed many people in town, was shut down during the 2008 financial crisis.

Amy Goldstein spent years interviewing victims of the shutdown in the small town. She tells of the many challenges that families, autoworkers, politicians, educators, local leaders, and job trainers had to confront in the face of a changing economy, shrinking wages, and job loss.

He shows how hard it was for families and workers to find something else to anchor their lives on after losing their jobs at the plant, and why this is, more often than not, impossible.

Amy Goldstein: Lists & Other Mentions

• Janesville: An American Story was a President Obama: Favourite Books Selection in 2017.

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Amy Goldstein: F.A.Q