Peter Gosselin is the national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a member of the paper’s Washington bureau.

High Wire — his new book — is based on a series of articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times that won both the Sidney Hillman and the James Aronson awards for investigative excellence.

He is also a two-time winner of the coveted George Polk Award for investigative reporting.

In addition to his duties with the Los Angeles Times, he is presently a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife, New York Times correspondent Robin Toner, and their two children, Nora and Jacob.