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Samantha Fields

Senior Reporter

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Samantha Fields is a senior reporter at Marketplace.

She’s particularly interested in how the economy affects people’s everyday lives, and a lot of her coverage focuses on economic inequality, housing and climate change.

She’s also reported and produced for WCAI and The GroundTruth Project, the “NPR Politics Podcast,” NPR’s midday show, “Here & Now,” Vermont Public Radio and Maine Public Radio. She got her start in journalism as a reporter for a community paper, The Wellesley Townsman, and her start in radio as an intern and freelance producer at “The Takeaway” at WNYC. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Episodes by Samantha (23)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1165

Neoliberalism's sleight of hand

May 21, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1120

Gaza's food crisis

Mar 18, 2024
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Marketplace Minute

Wholesale prices rose in January

Feb 16, 2024
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Marketplace Minute

Household debt rose in the third quarter

Nov 7, 2023
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Marketplace Minute

Stocks close higher

Oct 30, 2023
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1029

AI robocalls and ethical concerns for New Yorkers

Oct 19, 2023
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Goldman sees less risk of a U.S. recession

Sep 5, 2023
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Make Me Smart | Episode 992

The rise of homeownership sans insurance

Aug 28, 2023
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Make Me Smart | Episode 896

Who's paying Trump's legal bills?

Apr 5, 2023
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Make Me Smart | Episode 895

The recent phenomenon of the AR-15's popularity

Apr 4, 2023
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Wednesday's child tax credit payments could be the last

by Samantha Fields
Dec 15, 2021
The expansion of the child tax credit was temporary and will expire at the end of the year unless Congress votes to extend it.
Children draw on a canceled check prop during a rally in Washington urging extension of the expanded child tax credit.
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The Fed has ways to put the brakes on rising prices

by Samantha Fields
Dec 14, 2021
Most of them need a little time to slow the economy down.
To curb inflation, the central bank can reduce bond buying, raise interest rates and try to influence consumers' expectations and behavior.
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A Warmer World

FEMA plans to double down on climate preparedness

by Samantha Fields
Dec 10, 2021
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's new strategic plan focuses on helping communities adapt to the changing climate.
A FEMA task force searches a flooded North Carolina neighborhood in 2018. The emergency response agency is boosting its investment in helping communities withstand destructive weather.
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Some big employers are delaying back-to-the-office plans thanks to omicron

by Samantha Fields
Dec 8, 2021
Just like they did for delta before it.
Omicron has halted many employers' plans to bring people back to the office.
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This year's hurricane season was the fourth most expensive on record

by Samantha Fields
Dec 3, 2021
Two hurricanes and three tropical storms each caused over a billion dollars of damage.
Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in New York City following a night of extremely heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021.
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Renewable energy generating capacity hit a record this year. But that's half the story.

by Samantha Fields
Dec 1, 2021
Because no form of electrical generation operates at full capacity all the time.
Onshore windmills generally produce energy about one-third of the time, an expert said. Above a wind farm near Palm Springs, California.
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New unemployment claims drop to a 50-year low

by Samantha Fields
Nov 24, 2021
While there are constraints on labor supply, we're seeing signs that some of them are easing, one economist says.
Though this week's first-time jobless claims are a historic low, the economic recovery is still volatile. Above, people line up to attend a Los Angeles job fair.
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A Warmer World

Christmas tree supplies are tight, and climate change is to blame

by Samantha Fields
Nov 23, 2021
Expect trees to cost 5% to 10% more than they did last year.
A Christmas tree is loaded into a truck on Nov. 21. Christmas trees quantities are lower this year as a result of extreme heat and cutbacks in planting during the Great Recession.
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A Warmer World

Biden administration auctions oil and gas leases on 1.7 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico

by Samantha Fields
Nov 19, 2021
A court ordered the administration to resume the auctions it had suspended.
Drilling of the newly auctioned Gulf of Mexico gas and oil leases likely won't begin for seven to 10 years. Above, a drilling platform off the coast of Texas.
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The affordable housing crisis meets the climate crisis in New York

by Samantha Fields
Nov 19, 2021
After more than a dozen people died in illegal basement apartments in New York in in September, from flash flooding, there's been renewed attention on how to make those apartments safer in the face of climate change.
A flooded basement level apartment stands in a Queens neighborhood that saw massive flooding and numerous deaths following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Sept. 3, 2021 in New York City.
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