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Kristin Schwab

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Kristin Schwab is a reporter at Marketplace focusing on the consumer economy. She's based in Brooklyn, New York.

Before Marketplace, Kristin produced narrative and news podcasts for The New York Times, New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. She teaches audio journalism at her alma mater, Columbia Journalism School.

Kristin also has a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After performing with ballet and modern companies, she got her start in journalism as an editor at Dance Magazine. Kristin grew up in Minnesota and has been a bit reporting obsessed since watching the '90s PBS show "Ghostwriter" as a kid. Yes, she had one of those necklace pens and a marbled composition notebook.

Episodes by Kristin (10)

Marketplace

Steel tariffs déjà vu 

Apr 17, 2024
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“This is the time to be a saver”

Apr 2, 2024
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Ultimately, the joke's on Gmail rivals

Apr 1, 2024
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Can we break out of the mortgage lock-in effect?

Feb 19, 2024
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Shoppers love easy returns. But retailers aren't sold on 'em.

Nov 24, 2023
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Wall Street rallies on inflation

Nov 14, 2023
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A closer look at unemployment and wealth gap data

Oct 19, 2023
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How water moves — or stalls — the economy

Oct 18, 2023
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Oil prices are in flux

Sep 6, 2023
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Tracing the roots of Labor Day

Sep 4, 2023
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Latest Stories (505)

COVID-19

Thanksgiving won't launch Black Friday shopping at some of the biggest retailers

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 29, 2020
Walmart, Target and Best Buy won't open on the holiday this year to jump-start the traditional extreme-shopping weekend.
A Macy's Black Friday sale in 2018 in New York. Store traffic on Thanksgiving is just a small part of Black Friday weekend.
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COVID-19

How are plant-based meat companies faring during the pandemic?

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 27, 2020
Beyond Meat reports quarterly results Monday, which may offer a glimpse into how the sector is doing.
Packages of meat alternatives for sale in a New York market. Most customers are not vegetarians but people who eat less meat for health or environmental reasons.
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COVID-19

Who should pay for hazard pay?

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 24, 2020
Companies have mostly stopped paying it. Now, local governments are stepping in.
An employee at work in the meat department of a Florida supermarket. Such workers are considered essential and are taking risks during the pandemic but are not highly paid.
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Historically Black colleges and universities face new financial hurdles

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 24, 2020
The pandemic has reduced HBCUs' enrollment, affecting tuition revenue. Even before this year, many struggled financially.
Pictured: Graduates of Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland, attended ceremonies with messages on their mortarboard hats in 2013.
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Chambers of commerce grapple with pandemic's burdens on local businesses

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 23, 2020
Chambers must navigate a new landscape that includes shutdowns, PPP applications and changing promotional strategies.
COVID-19 has altered the landscape for local chambers of commerce, who function to promote local businesses.
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Race and Economy

What does it mean to declare racism a public health crisis?

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 15, 2020
Just the process of making the resolution can have an impact, one expert says. But it doesn't trigger government funds like other crises..
A Black Lives Matter march last month. More than 60 local governments in the United States are considering declaring racism a public health crisis.
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COVID-19

Local governments and companies encourage masks in absence of federal policy

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 13, 2020
New York, California and Oregon have put out public service ads to get people to wear masks.
A person walks by graffiti encouraging mask wearing in April in San Francisco.
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COVID-19

Higher education could see big revenue losses from a sports shutdown

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 10, 2020
College sports bring TV contracts, corporate donations and other income that could be lost this year due to COVID-19.
Fans cheer the Ohio State University Buckeyes at a 2008 game. In one year, sports brought in $209 million to the school.
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COVID-19

Why Disney wants to reopen its theme parks now

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 8, 2020
The Walt Disney Co.'s other enterprises, including Disney+ and ESPN, may not be generating enough revenue.
You won't see crowds like this at the reopened Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
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Why small businesses likely won't suspend their Facebook ads

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 2, 2020
Many of the companies participating in the boycott of Facebook are huge brands with enormous budgets.
Many of the companies boycotting Facebook are major brands with big budgets.
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