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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.

Episodes by Reema (207)

This Is Uncomfortable | Season 10

When death is your career

Oct 3, 2024
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Windfalls and vet bills

Sep 26, 2024
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The things we leave behind

Sep 19, 2024
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Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)

Sep 12, 2024
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Wait, I think I’m being underpaid

Sep 5, 2024
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What have you learned from the show?

Sep 3, 2024
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"Why did you buy more bones?"

Aug 29, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1228

The Democratic Party's billionaire whiplash

Aug 23, 2024
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This Is Uncomfortable | Season 10

Hanif Abdurraqib on what it means to “make it”

Aug 22, 2024
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“This Is Uncomfortable” is back Aug. 22

Aug 15, 2024
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Latest Stories (218)

Can you convince Americans to support lower corporate taxes by promising them a pay raise?

by Reema Khrais and Jana Kasperkevic
Oct 18, 2017
President Donald Trump said that lowering corporate taxes could result in a $4,000 pay raise for U.S. households.
President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform at the Indiana Farm Bureau today in Indianapolis.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
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Chinese internet giant Alibaba looks to scoop up global talent in $15 billion R&D expansion

by Reema Khrais
Oct 16, 2017
Chinese internet giant Alibaba is taking a big step toward competing globally. It plans to more than double spending on research and development to $15 billion over the next three years, and will open labs in seven cities around the world, including in Russia, Singapore and in the U.S. But can its dominance of the […]
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To win support for corporate tax reform, Trump promises a $4000 “pay raise”

by Reema Khrais
Oct 13, 2017
To sell his tax plan, President Donald Trump is trying to send a message to ordinary Americans: that cutting corporate taxes will benefit them too. During a speech this week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in front of a crowd of truckers, he claimed that by allowing companies to bring back overseas money at a low tax […]
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Despite some progress, corporate America remains a man's world

by Reema Khrais
Oct 10, 2017
A new survey from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org finds that women continue to have a steep climb in corporate America, and many companies don't see the scale of the problem.
Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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After Las Vegas shooting, gun "bump stocks" sell out

by Reema Khrais
Oct 5, 2017
Some Republicans said they’d be open to considering legislation that would ban them.
Crime scene tape surrounds the Mandalay Bay hotel after a gunman killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
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Social media giants gear up for possible regulation

by Reema Khrais
Sep 29, 2017
Pressure is mounting on Facebook, and now Twitter, to take action over ads bought or accounts created to apparently breed divisiveness or exert influence over the American public. While the companies are staving off political outcries with promises of self-regulation, they’re also increasing lobbying and policy efforts. Click the audio player above to hear the […]
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Tax cut for the rich or payday for the middle class? The battle to win the messaging war

by Reema Khrais
Sep 27, 2017
Republicans, Democrats and lobbyists are choosing words carefully to sell their positions.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to the press about tax reform in Washington, D.C., in August.
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
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Yazidis find a home in Lincoln, Nebraska

by Reema Khrais
Sep 26, 2017
The state capital is the home of the largest Yazidi community in the country.
Khaled Hesso and his family were among the first Yazidis to move to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Daisy Palacios/Marketplace
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Sneaker wars: Adidas overtakes Jordan brand

by Reema Khrais
Sep 26, 2017
Adidas has moved past Jordan brand as the second-most popular sneaker in the U.S., according to market research firm NPD Group.
A general view of Adidas sneakers during the Adidas AlphaBOUNCE Stylelab at Duggal Greenhouse on July 23, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York. 
Adidas AlphaBOUNCE Stylelab
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Credit card delinquency rates inching upwards

by Reema Khrais
Sep 22, 2017
Credit card delinquencies have inched up this year, as a rising number of Americans are falling behind on their card payments. We look at why this is significant, and what are the factors behind this increase. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
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