Annie Lowrey
Atlantic staff writer on economic policy; author of Give People Money and The Time Tax.
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The Atlantic (staff writer on economic policy)
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- Annie Lowrey is an American journalist who writes on politics and economic policy as a staff writer at The Atlantic.
- Before that she covered economic policy for The New York Times and wrote the Moneybox column at Slate.
- She argues for a universal basic income in her first book, Give People Money (2018), and her second, The Time Tax (2026), is about how government wastes people's time.
Key facts
- Current role
- Staff writer, The Atlantic1
- Born
- 22 July 19841
- Education
- Harvard University1
- Earlier
- Economic policy reporter at The New York Times; Moneybox columnist at Slate, which she joined in 2010; Washington Independent; Foreign Policy and The New Yorker editorial staffs1
- Books
- Give People Money (2018), shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year; The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It (2026)1
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