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Andie Corban

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Andie is a producer of Marketplace's flagship daily program. She produces field stories, economic explainers and interviews with government officials, small-business owners, CEOs and others. Andie joined Marketplace in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles.

Before Marketplace, Andie led the news department at Rhode Island radio station WBRU. She also worked at Boston's NPR station, WBUR, and her investigative reporting has been published in The Providence Journal newspaper. She has a degree in public policy from Brown University.

In her free time, Andie enjoys baking new recipes (or just making her favorite chocolate chip cookies) and going to movie screenings across Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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How gun dealers are skirting Biden's new ghost gun rule

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Sep 21, 2022
Alain Stephens, an investigative reporter for The Trace, breaks down the market for ghost guns.
"When you buy a traditional firearm through a regularly licensed gun dealer, there's a serial number attached to that ... but these homemade guns, they don't have serial numbers," said The Trace's Alain Stephens.
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Why buy now, pay later might not be such a good idea

by Amy Scott and Andie Corban
Sep 12, 2022
These short-term credit companies are running into questions about their customers' ability to pay them back. Regulators are paying more attention.
"You buy more stuff when you're doing buy now, pay later because it feels like you're spending less money," says Vox reporter Emily Stewart.
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Queen Elizabeth II dies amid uncertain times in the UK

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Sep 8, 2022
"She died — although at the age of 96 — too soon," said Marketplace's Stephen Beard.
Queen Elizabeth at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London in 2012.
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Here's how HP recycles its ink cartridges — and works on climate pledges

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 2, 2022
We visit an 80,000-square-foot facility in La Vergne, Tennessee, where the cartridges are taken apart and readied for their next life.
James McCall, left, and Kai Ryssdal stand next to one of the hundreds of boxes filled with used HP ink cartridges.
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Despite travel rebound, inflation and staffing continue to limit this Hawaiian tourism business

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 1, 2022
Manu Powers, who co-owns boat and snorkel tour company Sea Quest Hawaii, said their gas bill recently hit five figures for the first time.
Inflation is affecting the price of gas, which has significantly cut into the profit margins of Sea Quest Hawaii
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How remote work is affecting a small business in a Seattle office district

by Andie Corban
Jul 22, 2022
The rise of work from home means that far fewer people are coming into Velouria, a boutique Cat Wilcox co-owns.
There's much less activity in the area around Cat Wilcox's shop, Velouria. Consequently, in-person shopping is down.
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Inflation adds new pieces to the puzzle of running an independent movie theater

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jul 20, 2022
Nashville's Belcourt just had its first "normal" weekend in 2 years, while supply chain issues and industry change are adding obstacles.
Everything costs more now, says Stephanie Silverman, the Belcourt's executive director, including shipping for repertory films like 1992's "Malcolm X." "Those movies are heavy," she says.
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Sweet serendipity leads bakery owner to business school and a full scholarship

by Andie Corban
Jul 12, 2022
In August, Rita Magalde of Utah is starting a nine-month master's program to help grow her baklava business.
"While working at a Greek-owned restaurant in high school and college, my love for baking baklava blossomed," Rita Magalde says on the Sweet Ambrosia website. Above, baklava arranged on trays at a bakery.
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Thursday's Supreme Court decision was about a lot more than climate change

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jun 30, 2022
West Virginia v. EPA is likely to restrict federal agencies' power to issue all sorts of regulations, according to Blake Emerson of UCLA Law.
In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court limited the EPA's ability to create emissions caps for power plants.
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With Roe v. Wade overturned, economic disparities are poised to get worse

by Kai Ryssdal , Andie Corban and Sean McHenry
Jun 24, 2022
For millions of Americans, the loss of abortion rights may affect educational attainment and lifetime earnings for generations.
Abortion-rights activists demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday after the court's ruling was announced.
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