Nancy Marshall-Genzer

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Nancy covers Washington, D.C. for Marketplace. However, she has a wide range of interests and has reported on everything from homelessness to government shutdowns and the history of the Fed.

Before joining Marketplace, she worked in the NPR newscast unit as a producer and fill-in editor and newscaster. She also worked at WAMU, the NPR affiliate in Washington.

In 2023, Nancy was honored with a Gracie Award for a story on how pediatricians were coping with the end of the federal government's COVID public health emergency. The story also won a National Headliner Award and a Society of Professional Journalists award.

Latest Stories (1,665)

Georgia Senate race is now the most expensive of the 2022 midterms

Dec 6, 2022
Here's where that money has come from, and where it's going.
Local resident Reniya Weekes holds a sign to encourage people to vote early outside a polling station on November 29, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Can the Fed keep inflation under control without sacrificing jobs?

Dec 2, 2022
The Federal Reserve is supposed to do both things. But Chair Jerome Powell said this week the Fed will keep raising interest rates to cool inflation, even if that pushes people out of work.
A moderator calls on members of the audience for questions for chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome Powell during an event at the Brookings Institution, November 30, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Pediatricians brace for the end of federal COVID-19 vaccine funding

Nov 29, 2022
Once funding for COVID vaccines run out, doctors will have to pay upfront for the doses — and hope that they make their money back.
Pediatricians will have to pay for COVID vaccines after federal funding runs out — and that has many of them worried.
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When it comes to crypto, it's buyer beware

Nov 11, 2022
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released a new bulletin of consumer complaints about crypto.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has received more than 8,000 complaints about crypto in the past four years.
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Texas redistricting changes how congressional candidates allocate money

Oct 26, 2022
Some congressional candidates are doubling down on campaign spending to win over new districts.
"We’re running a full campaign like we did the very first time," says Vicente Gonzalez, who campaigned at an event in Harlingen, Texas, above. "We’ve knocked on over 145,000 doors.”
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Election deniers draw big money in state-level midterm races

Oct 20, 2022
Some of the candidates for these key roles are Republicans who have yet to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In swing states, "election deniers are raising a lot of money,” said OpenSecrets researcher Sarah Bryner.
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Inflation may be losing momentum. But not everywhere.

Oct 14, 2022
Labor Department numbers for September show inflation slowing in some sectors.
In this economy, inflation is running at different speeds in different sectors.
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Why has it taken so long for savings account interest rates to start rising?

Sep 16, 2022
The national average is still a paltry 0.13%, according to Bankrate, even as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates.
Online banks tend to pay the highest rates on savings accounts because they don't have the same overhead costs as brick-and-mortar banks.
Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Interest rate hikes not always bad news for stock markets

Sep 15, 2022
Markets plummeted Tuesday as Wall Street was rattled by hot inflation numbers that raised fears of even steeper interest rate hikes.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 13, 2022 in New York City.
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