Steven Greenhouse

Steven Greenhouse has been covering labor and workplace issues for The New York Times since October 1995. He joined the Times in 1983 and first worked there as a business reporter, covering steel and other basic industries. He spent two-and-a-half years as Midwestern business correspondent based in Chicago and then five years as the newspaper's European economics correspondent, based in Paris. He next spent two years as an economics correspondent in Washington D.C. and then two years covering the State Department and foreign affairs. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also has a law degree from New York University. This past April, Alfred A. Knopf published his book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, which examines the difficulties faced by white-collar and blue-collar workers and middle-class and low-wage workers. He is married to Miriam Reinharth. They have two children, Emily, a senior at Wesleyan, and Jeremy, a freshman at Tufts. He lives in Pelham, N.Y.