Kimberly Adams

Correspondent

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Kimberly Adams is Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent and the co-host of the Marketplace podcast, “Make Me Smart.” She regularly hosts other Marketplace programs, and reports from the nation’s capital on the way politics, technology, and economics show up in our everyday lives. Her reporting focuses on empowering listeners with the tools they need to more deeply engage with society and our democracy.

Adams is also the host and editor of APM’s "Call to Mind", a series of programs airing on public radio stations nationwide aimed at changing the national conversation about mental health.

Previously, Kimberly was a foreign correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, reporting on the political, social, and economic upheaval following the Arab Spring for news organizations around the world. She has received awards for her work from the National Press Club, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Religion Communicators Council, and the Association for Women in Communication.

Latest Stories (897)

Activist groups prepare for legal battles during Trump 2.0

Jan 17, 2025
As the incoming team develops executive orders and initiatives, critics are hiring staff and reviewing lessons of the first term.
A view of the U.S. Capitol, where Donald Trump's second inauguration will take place. The ACLU and other organizations are readying legal strategies to oppose policies they consider harmful.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Pre-inauguration immigration bill is sign of GOP's eagerness to act

Jan 13, 2025
Congress and President-elect Trump's staff are readying executive orders and legislation that can be signed as soon as he enters office.

As thousands flee LA fires, disaster poses unique challenges for the unhoused

Jan 10, 2025
There are roughly 75,000 people in Los Angeles experiencing homelessness, and those in the path of the fires face additional risks.
Evacuation shelters are filling with newly displaced people. Those shelters were already strained trying to provide for the area's unhoused populations.
Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As Supreme Court ponders fate of TikTok, ByteDance has a backup plan

Jan 9, 2025
TikTok parent company ByteDance is asking the court to halt a law that would require the Chinese company to sell TikTok to a U.S. firm or face a ban.
ByteDance has been encouraging users to sign up for another one of its platforms, Lemon8, in case the U.S. TikTok ban does go through.
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Republicans press for change in how CBO tallies cost of legislation

Jan 6, 2025
Spurred by tax cut policy, backers of "dynamic scoring" want the math to include wider economic benefits, not just implementation costs.

A top agenda item for 119th Congress will be the 2017 Trump tax cuts

Jan 3, 2025
Many provisions of that tax law expire at the end of this year — including the individual tax cuts for most Americans.

The economic legacy of Jimmy Carter

Dec 30, 2024
Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at 100. His administration was plagued by rampant inflation and an energy crisis.

Despite a GOP-controlled Congress, tax reform might still be an uphill battle

Dec 26, 2024
Between campaign promises and concerns about the deficit, updating the tax code in 2025 will be no easy feat.
Provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, signed during President Donald Trump's first term, will expire at the end of 2025 if Congress doesn't act.
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Makeup? RVs? Company credit card fraud seems to be on the rise

Dec 25, 2024
"Firms are catching more shenanigans than they did in the past" because of AI, says Callum Borchers of the Wall Street Journal.
Artificial intelligence is helping companies catch fraud faster and more frequently, but illicit purchases may still be on the rise.
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