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 (843)

Companies looking for legal cover make harassment prevention programs big business

Apr 6, 2017
Companies can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on workplace training, but does it work?
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What does it take to get security clearance?

Mar 30, 2017
Presidential hires get to cut into the line, which can take years to get through.
Ivanka Trump participates in a listening session with manufacturing CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House.
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Why hiring a new CEO can be really difficult

Mar 24, 2017
The world’s biggest entertainment company is taking a little more time to choose a new CEO. Disney announced it will extend the contract for CEO Robert Iger for another year, until 2019. This is the third time Disney has extended Iger’s contract. He was originally supposed to retire in 2015, but Disney keeps convincing him […]

Market forces help stabilize CO2 emissions for third year

Mar 17, 2017
The plateau in emissions comes amid global economic growth.
"The switch from coal to gas really happened because of the shale gas revolution and because of markets,” said Laura Cozzi of the International Energy Agency. Above, a coal power plant from American Electric Power in New Haven, West Virginia.
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What do Trump's 2005 tax returns reveal?

Mar 15, 2017
The leaked returns offer a limited peek at Trump's taxes.
President Donald Trump attends a meeting on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C. 
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Who wins and loses under the GOP’s health care proposal?

Mar 14, 2017
24 million could end up uninsured with the Republican plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO estimates that 24 million people will lose health insurance under the Republican plan to replace Obamacare. Above, Dr. Martha Perez examines Dorothy Jolly at Community Health of South Florida.
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Theory versus reality on the border adjustment tax

Mar 3, 2017
The border adjustment tax being championed by House Republicans would increase taxes on imports and make it cheaper to export American-made goods. Businesses who support it contend that it would even the playing field between foreign products and those made in the U.S. Opponents argue a BAT would make many popular retail goods prohibitively expensive. […]

The list of companies that want to build the wall is growing

Mar 2, 2017
The government is getting ready to solicit bids to design and build border wall prototypes.
A stretch of wall between Nogales, Arizona, and Mexico.
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Here are the economic highlights from Trump's first address to Congress

Mar 1, 2017
On the economic agenda: infrastructure, Obamacare and taxes.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
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Trump is about to run into the budget reality

Feb 28, 2017
As the president outlines his first proposal, he's about to get a lesson in the ways of Washington.
President Donald Trump will outline his first budget proposal tonight.
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