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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 (574)

Mutual aid grows in popularity during protests and pandemic

Jun 4, 2020
Communities of color and activists have been practicing mutual aid for a long time. But it has become much more widespread recently.
Volunteers with the Bronx Mutual Aid Network buy and delivery groceries and run errands for people in the community.
Courtesy Thahitun Mariam/Bronx Mutual Aid Network

"Record levels" of food insecurity in the U.S. because of COVID-19

May 22, 2020
States that rely heavily on tourism, including Nevada and Hawaii, are seeing some of the biggest increases.
A drive-thru food pantry in Las Vegas. Nevada is projected to have one of the highest increases in food insecurity this year.
(Bridget Bennett/AFP via Getty Images)

For summer towns, Memorial Day brings anxiety and optimism

May 21, 2020
Cape Cod to Ocean City, tourist towns wonder what summer will look like in the age of COVID-19.
The boardwalk in Ocean City on May 10, 2020.
(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Many high school seniors in the "class of COVID" are rethinking their college plans

May 14, 2020
Some are choosing cheaper schools, taking gap years, or staying closer to home. Others are hoping that, if college is online in the fall, tuition might be lower.
With all the economic uncertainty, and lack of clarity over whether college campuses will open in the fall, many high school seniors are still deciding what to do next year.
Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images

How many jobs will come back after the COVID-19 pandemic ends?

Unemployment is higher than it's been since the Great Depression. Economists estimate that more than 40% of layoffs will likely be permanent.
Seventy-eight percent of those who lost jobs in April reported they were temporarily laid off.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images

44% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford food, poll finds

May 7, 2020
Food banks are seeing a surge in demand as COVID-19 pandemic pushes many newly-unemployed toward food insecurity.
Cars line up at a food distribution site for those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in Inglewood, California.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)