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Amy Scott

Host & Senior Correspondent, Housing

Amy Scott is the host of “How We Survive,” Marketplace's climate solutions podcast, and a senior correspondent covering housing, climate and the economy. She is also a frequent guest host of Marketplace programs. Since 2001, Amy has held many roles at Marketplace and covered many beats, from the culture of Wall Street to education and housing. Her reporting has taken her to every region of the country as well as Egypt, Dubai and Germany.  Her 2015 documentary film, “Oyler,” about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally urban Appalachian neighborhood, has screened at film festivals internationally and was broadcast on public television in 2016. She's currently at work on a film about a carpenter's mission to transform an abandoned block in west Baltimore into a community of Black women homeowners. Amy has won several awards for her reporting, including a SABEW Best in Business podcast award in 2023, Gracie awards for outstanding radio series in 2013 and 2014 and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting in 2012. Before joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. These days she's based in Baltimore.

Latest from Amy Scott

  • Twenty years ago East Germans, who lived in a communist system for decades, found themselves suddenly confronted by capitalism. What has the transition been like since then? Amy Scott reports.

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  • Google says it's starting an experiment in which it will provide ultra-fast Internet service to a handful of communities. Amy Scott reports.

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  • A new reality TV series features bosses from the likes of 7-Eleven and Churchill Downs working entry-level jobs to find out what really goes on in their companies. Amy Scott reports.

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  • At a press conference in Nagoya, Japan, Toyota President Akio Toyoda apologized for the severe recall and issues related to the company's cars. Steve Chiotakis reviews his statements with Marketplace's Amy Scott.

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  • Stock markets around the world are continuing to fall today as investors worry that a debt crisis in Greece may spread to other European countries. Bill Radke gets the latest from Marketplace's Amy Scott.

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  • The Labor Department releases unemployment figures for January later this morning, and some analysts are betting the economy added jobs for the second time in three months. Other analysts disagree. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Japan has ordered Toyota to investigate possible problems with brakes on its new Prius hybrid model. Bill Radke talks to Marketplace's Amy Scott about customers' complaints and how they will further impact Toyota.

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  • Congress is now investigating electronics systems on Toyota cars following the automaker's massive recall tied to faulty gas pedals. Bill Radke talks to Marketplace's Amy Scott about how this latest development might affect repairs.

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  • AIG had promised to pay employees nearly $200 million in bonuses next month, but buckled to pay cut pressure from pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. Amy Scott reports $100 million will go to workers in advance who agreed to the cuts.

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  • President Obama is pitching a plan to boost small business by giving $30 billion in repaid bank bailout money to community banks. Bill Radke talks to Marketplace's Amy Scott about how this plan could help create jobs.

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