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.
Latest Stories (537)
New unemployment claims drop to a 50-year low
Nov 24, 2021
While there are constraints on labor supply, we're seeing signs that some of them are easing, one economist says.
Christmas tree supplies are tight, and climate change is to blame
Nov 23, 2021
Expect trees to cost 5% to 10% more than they did last year.
Biden administration auctions oil and gas leases on 1.7 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico
Nov 19, 2021
A court ordered the administration to resume the auctions it had suspended.
The affordable housing crisis meets the climate crisis in New York
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.
EV charging stations will get a boost from the infrastructure package
Nov 17, 2021
The bill devotes $7.5 billion to Biden's goal — having half a million charging stations nationwide within a decade.
Why did the outdoor economy suffer in 2020 when more of us were outside?
Nov 11, 2021
Lockdowns, public lands closures, supply chain disruptions and travel restrictions took a toll. But many outdoor retailers still had a great year.
Hurricane Ida flooded their basement apartment. Months later, they've barely begun to recover.
Nov 9, 2021
Many New York basement apartments flooded in September. Most of the hardest-hit residents were low-income, and most were immigrants.
U.S., other countries cut funding for international fossil fuel projects
Nov 4, 2021
Instead, they'll put about $18 billion a year into renewable energy projects.
The developing world needs more private investment to reach climate goals
Nov 3, 2021
It needs more public investment, too.
U.S. and EU trade agreement seeks reduction of "dirty steel"
Nov 1, 2021
The pact lifts U.S. tariffs on European steel and European Union duties on bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.