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Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Correspondent

Nancy covers Washington, D.C. for Marketplace. However, she has a wide range of interests and has reported on everything from homelessness to government shutdowns and the history of the Fed.

Before joining Marketplace, she worked in the NPR newscast unit as a producer and fill-in editor and newscaster. She also worked at WAMU, the NPR affiliate in Washington.

In 2023, Nancy was honored with a Gracie Award for a story on how pediatricians were coping with the end of the federal government's COVID public health emergency. The story also won a National Headliner Award and a Society of Professional Journalists award.

Latest from Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  • President Donald Trump has said he wants to roll back much of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that Congress passed after the financial crisis. Smaller regional banks have honed in on one part of Dodd-Frank they would like to change: the rule on how big a bank has to be for it to be considered […]

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  • President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed their “profound shared economic interests” as they met for the first time today. At one point in his press conference with Trump, Trudeau said the North American Free Trade Agreement is a real concern for many Canadians because their jobs depend on trade with the […]

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  • The chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers is usually part of the president’s cabinet, but that won’t be the case in Donald Trump’s White House. Plus, Trump hasn’t even nominated anyone for the slot yet. What’s the upshot of this demotion? Some suspect it has more to do with politics than anything […]

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  • President Donald Trump ordered a government hiring freeze for all departments but the military in his first week in office. 
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    Fearful workers are reluctant to talk to reporters, leaving that to their union.

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  • Companies could react to travel bans by expanding abroad. To get around any existing or future travel bans, tech firms are considering opening overseas branches, rather than scaling up in the U.S. Click the above audio player to hear the full story.

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  • It’s been more than a decade since Houston last hosted the Superbowl. Problems in the oil and gas industry have battered the city in the meantime, but in the last few years, Houston has staged a stunning comeback. Click the above audio player to hear the full story.

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  • President Donald Trump signs two executive orders during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security with Vice President Mike Pence, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and other officials on Jan. 25 in Washington, D.C.
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    In Washington, D.C., lobbyists are in a frenzy.

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  • Blocking federal hires produces questionable results.

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  • President Donald Trump is expected to focus more on trade deals with individual countries now that he has ended U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. Could the bilateral deals be better for the US than the 12-nation TPP? Click the above audio player to hear the full story.

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  • In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump voiced concerns about lawmakers' version of his boarder tax.

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