Kai is the host and senior editor of “Marketplace,” the most widely heard program on business and the economy — radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting — in the country. Kai speaks regularly with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, startup entrepreneurs, small-business owners and everyday participants in the American and global economies. Before his career in broadcasting, Kai served in the United States Navy and United States Foreign Service. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Georgetown University. Kai lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.
!["[Boosting enrollment] is especially important at a time that... a lot of small and kind of niche colleges are seeing... a drop off in their expected enrollment," says Xavier Martinez at The Wall Street Journal.](https://img.apmcdn.org/0a583db06bff3246d7a129491b113267099888e9/widescreen/a72e4f-20250608-three-students-jump-for-a-frisbee-disc-webp2000.webp)
![According to Weston LaBar, even local businesses around the port are struggling. "I was talking to the owner [of a pizza shop]. It's typically full on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Absolutely empty," he said.](https://img.apmcdn.org/3d1437992bd494b74c550505c9fcc7e09c7888c8/widescreen/78c826-20250506-aerial-view-of-shipping-containers-on-a-port-webp2000.webp)
