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Jeremy Hobson

Former Host, Marketplace Morning Report

Jeremy Hobson is the former host of  Marketplace Morning Report. Hobson started at Marketplace in 2007 as a reporter based in Washington, D.C.  He later covered Wall Street and its impact on ordinary Americans for Marketplace, based in the New York City bureau. He started reporting from New York one week before Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.  Hobson hosted Marketplace Morning Report from 2011 through 2013. Before joining Marketplace, Hobson frequently found himself in the right place at the right time when it came to big stories: He was calling Florida precincts for NPR’s 2000 election coverage, he was working for Boston’s WBUR during the Boston Catholic Church Sex Abuse scandal, and he was an intern for NPR’s Guy Raz in Turkey at the start of the Iraq War. In addition to those roles, Hobson has worked as producer for NPR’s All Things Considered, Day to Day and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! He has also worked as a host and reporter for public radio stations WILL Urbana, WCAI Cape Cod and WRNI Providence. Hobson’s radio career began in earnest at the age of nine when he started contributing to a program called Treehouse Radio.  Hobson is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He lives in New York and enjoys hiking, traveling and extremely spicy foods.

Latest from Jeremy Hobson

  • Congressmen of both parties are debating whether to end or extend the Bush-era tax cuts, but for former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, the answer is clear: Let the Bush cuts run their course and raise taxes, so the government can get a handle on the deficit.

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  • Both Democrats and Republicans are calling for the extension of the Bush tax cuts — but of course, applied in different ways. But do tax cuts really have any effect on the economy?

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  • Manufacturing employs a significant number of residents in the town of Kingsport. But with consumers buying a lot less, it's not just the manufacturing employees that get hit, but everyone from the local store owner to the hairdresser.

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  • In Memphis, Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson found that for struggling homeowners, the difference is as simple as black and white.

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  • A down economy can be a boon for upbeat music. Jeremy Hobson checks in with musicians in Nashville to see what they're singing about.

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  • In many cities around the U.S., there are people who live near major airports. But most flights usually take off and land during the day. In one Tennessee airport, though, the real action happens at night. And residents don't seem to mind. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson reports on another recession — the one hitting African Americans. The recession hit African Americans more acutely, because of factors such as less savings and higher incarceration rates, which deters many from looking for jobs.

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  • The housing market got us into this mess. And as more and more Americans have been laid off, office buildings have emptied out. All that hits hard for one profession in particular: architects. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • How is the recession impacting lives of ordinary Americans? Reporter Jeremy Hobson traveled to the bellweather state of Tennessee in search of signs of the recovery. Plus, share photos of scenes of a recovery in your neighborhood.

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  • The latest jobs report has us down 54,000 jobs while the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6%. Liz Ann Sonders from Charles Schwab talks with Steve Chiotakis about whether it is surprising that we keep losing jobs and CBS MoneyWatch's Jill Schlesinger tells us why this is the result of a "two decade party."

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