Joe Pinsker

I'm a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where I cover personal finance. My beat is "the pursuit of happiness"—basically, how people feel about money and the economy, and how they're defining a good life.Previously, I was a staff writer at The Atlantic, where I covered business and economics, and then families and parenting. There, I wrote about four-day workweeks, "metacookbooks," the world's happiest countries, long-distance relationships, the "Sunday Scaries" and the nature of modern work, and human-like pet food.I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, went to college in Philadelphia, am based in Durham, NC, and eat the same thing for lunch every (work)day.

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I've discussed my articles in interviews with CNN, On the Media, and several other TV and radio outlets.You can get in touch with me at [email protected] and follow me on Twitter @jpinsk.If you'd like to receive a simple email alert when I publish a story, you can enter your email address here.