Samantha Fields
Senior Reporter
SHORT BIO
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)
More companies plan to incentivize vaccination rather than require it — for now
Apr 30, 2021
Nearly 90% of U.S. companies plan to encourage or require employees to get vaccinated; 65% plan to offer incentives.
Could waiving patents increase the global supply of COVID-19 vaccines?
Apr 30, 2021
Advocates for waiving say letting countries make generic vaccines would help. Skeptics say it's not that simple.
Apple will spend more than $1 billion on new campus in North Carolina's Triangle
Apr 26, 2021
The move's all about attracting talent — a lot of it.
Biden's pitch: tackling climate change will create lots of jobs
Apr 23, 2021
But will it create them where oil and coal jobs have been lost?
Many younger Black Americans started investing in the stock market during the pandemic
Apr 20, 2021
According to a recent survey, 30% of Black investors under 40 first got into the market in 2020.
CDC: Vacant middle seats on flights reduce COVID exposure risk
Apr 19, 2021
But most major domestic airlines have already stopped blocking those seats.
Americans cannot wait to get the heck out of their homes and go on vacation
Apr 16, 2021
To wit: "Plan a trip to Disney World” Google searches increased 2600% between March and April.
How to achieve vaccination equity? In Philly, the answer is walk-in clinics
Apr 15, 2021
The number of Black and Hispanic residents getting vaccinated in Philadelphia increased by more than 50% where the city reserved shots for walk-ins.
Both passengers and drivers are feeling better about ride-sharing
Apr 13, 2021
Uber just had its best month ever. "We're seeing ride demand track closely with vaccination rates," Lyft's president told us.
IRS says $1.3 billion in tax refunds is unclaimed — from 2017
Apr 12, 2021
People have until May 17 to file their 2017 taxes and request their refunds.