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Reema Khrais

Host and Reporter

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Reema Khrais is the host of the Marketplace podcast, “This is Uncomfortable,” a narrative show about life and how money messes with it.

Reema first joined Marketplace in 2016 as a general assignment reporter where she covered everything from immigration and education to retail and employment. In the summer of 2018, she was selected as an ICFJ Bringing the World Home Fellow and traveled to Turkey to report on the economic lives of Syrian refugees for Marketplace. Prior to that, she covered education policy for North Carolina Public Radio as the station’s Fletcher Fellow. Reema got her start in audio as an NPR Kroc Fellow, which included a reporting stint at WNYC. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is fluent in Arabic.

She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she spends her free time hiking, making ceramics and spoiling her orange cat.

Latest Stories (219)

Donald Trump to begin scaling back Dodd-Frank Law

Feb 3, 2017
President Donald Trump is set to scale back major regulations put in place after the financial crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump will sign an executive order this afternoon to begin revising the rules set by the Dodd-Frank law. He’s also expected to direct the Labor Department to revise or rescind President Barack […]

After UC Berkeley protests, Trump questions pulling federal funds

Feb 2, 2017
On Wednesday night, protests erupted at the University of California, Berkeley, hours before controversial right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. University officials said protests were peaceful until a group of people started lighting fires and smashing windows. The university canceled the speech, citing safety concerns. Then, early Thursday morning, President Donald Trump weighed […]

Goldman Sachs pulls out of Las Vegas stadium deal with Raiders

Feb 1, 2017
The Oakland Raiders’ plan to move to Las Vegas is falling apart. First, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson said he would no longer help finance the $1.9 billion relocation. Then, Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs backed out. Sports business experts explain how locking down money for team relocations can be tricky. Click the above audio player […]

Drugmakers of insulin accused of price fixing

Jan 31, 2017
Three of the biggest makers of diabetes treatments have been accused of price fixing. A lawsuit filed this week claims that Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have been conspiring to drive up prices of insulin at the expense of their patients. Because of the high prices, the suit says some patients have been using […]

President Trump builds a bigger deportation force

Jan 27, 2017
Trump aims to deputize law enforcement in a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Downtown Los Angeles becomes a giant construction zone

Jan 26, 2017
The city hasn't seen a building boom like this since the '20s.
In downtown Los Angeles, 115 new projects have been built since 2010, according to real estate data firm CoStar.
Courtesy:Hunter Kerhart

Trump moving fast on first workday of GOP government

Jan 23, 2017
But Washington is more tortoise than hare.

Trump takes aim at NATO

Jan 16, 2017
Is the alliance as "obsolete" as he says?

Brand identity is the key for magazines

Jan 10, 2017
Glossy and costly is a winner for some in the magazine industry.
Magazines are on display at a newsstand on February 25, 2015 in Lille. 

 
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A Samsung customer browses a web page showing a fire-damaged Samsung Note 7 mobile phone, on a similar device, at a Samsung store in a mall beneath the company's headquarters in the Gangnam district of Seoul on October 12, 2016. 
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