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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)

Drops in travel from the Middle East to U.S. hurt high-end markets

by Reema Khrais
Apr 19, 2017
Emirates, the biggest airline in the Middle East, is cutting back on flights to the United States in five of its 12 destinations. The air carrier said demand has dropped steeply since President Trump’s restrictions on entry from Muslim-majority countries. And the ban of any electronic device bigger than a cell phone from certain Middle East […]
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Why companies differ over 'proxy access'

by Reema Khrais
Apr 18, 2017
Investors in IBM will vote next week on whether to give themselves more rights to influence company decisions. Many companies have already embraced a kind of governance called “proxy access,” where shareholders can nominate company officials. But other corporations, including IBM and Charles Schwab, oppose it.  Click the audio player above to hear the full […]
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Just how much bank did the big banks make in the first quarter? Wall Street is about to find out

by Reema Khrais
Apr 14, 2017
The big banks will start rolling out their first-quarter earnings reports today and expectations are high. But Wall Street will also be looking for clues to a lending mystery: why aren’t banks doing more of it?  Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
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Forget tax incentives. Here’s why Netflix is investing in Hollywood.

by Reema Khrais
Apr 12, 2017
States lured away business from Los Angeles with deals for producers. But some shows are coming back.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings delivers a keynote address.
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Spotify’s non-IPO: What’s a ‘direct listing’ anyway?

by Reema Khrais
Apr 6, 2017
Here’s why the music streaming service is considering a method of going public that’s quite rare.
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The Big Promise

Rebuilding Corry, Pennsylvania, one store at a time

by Reema Khrais
Apr 5, 2017
A group of women business owners has a plan to revive the former oil boomtown.
Sisters Wendy Neckers and Valerie Beckerink grew up near Corry, Pennsylvania and returned as adults. They manage two businesses in the downtown area, which they’re trying to help revitalize.
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How Erie is rewriting the Rust Belt narrative

by Reema Khrais
Apr 4, 2017
Entrepreneurs are building a startup culture in the Pennsylvania city and bringing new energy to its economy.
Sean Fedorko heads up Radius CoWork, Erie’s first coworking space.
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Congressional Budget Office weighs in on the next 30 years

by Reema Khrais
Mar 30, 2017
If you want to be loved, you don’t go to work for the Congressional Budget Office. The non-partisan agency’s job is to make economic projections and provide Congress with all sorts of budget data. Data that fails to account for all sorts of possibilities and invariably makes somebody unhappy. The agency earned the wrath of […]
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Apple will build iPhones in India, widening its market there

by Reema Khrais
Mar 23, 2017
Smartphone assembly in Bangalore starts in a couple months.
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The Big Promise

Erie depends on immigrants to boost its economy

by Reema Khrais
Mar 22, 2017
Erie's population is declining, and it's relying on immigrants for growth, and the immigrants are relying on each other.
Saad Albidhawi, a long-time mechanic, is part of the reason there are now more than 10 Iraqi-owned auto shops in Erie.
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