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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)

For China, intellectual property is a bigger deal than tariffs

by Reema Khrais
Mar 8, 2018
China has warned against the proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, but in fact, they’d barely put a dent in its economy. The country exports just 1 percent of its steel to the United States. Really, economists argue, the bigger trade fight with China has little to do with metal. This week, President Donald Trump […]
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What it actually takes to bring a relative to the U.S.

by Reema Khrais
Mar 5, 2018
When a U.S. citizen sponsors a relative to come to the country, it can take a few months or as long as 25 years.
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Stoneman Douglas students help raise millions online

by Reema Khrais
Mar 2, 2018
Since the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School two weeks ago, the students have been calling for gun-control measures and support for the victims. They’ve helped raise millions of dollars on GoFundMe, much of it going toward organizing a march in Washington, D.C., later this month. How is all that money being […]
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Amazon puts a Ring on it

by Reema Khrais
Feb 28, 2018
Amazon’s purchase of Ring, a maker of video doorbells, could help it solve its problems with package theft by making it easier for packages to be delivered inside people’s homes. But Ring’s greater value may come in the extra juice it gives Amazon in the battle to dominate the connected home. Click the audio player […]
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Online stores get physical

by Reema Khrais
Feb 16, 2018
Warby Parker plans to have nearly 100 brick-and-mortar stores by the end of the year.
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Flu season could cost employers billions of dollars

by Reema Khrais
Feb 12, 2018
This flu season could cost businesses at least $15.4 billion in lost productivity, according to one employment consulting firm.
A sign advertising flu shots is displayed at a Walgreens pharmacy on Jan. 22, 2018 in San Francisco, California. 
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Thanks to Equifax, the risk of fraud is higher this tax season

by Reema Khrais
Jan 29, 2018
If someone claiming to be from the IRS gives you a call, go ahead and hang up.
It's that time of year again ... tax time.
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Federal immigration agents say there will be more workplace raids like 7-Eleven

by Reema Khrais
Jan 25, 2018
Businesses are making plans in case they are raided by ICE.
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What’s the strategy behind Amazon’s decision to hike monthly Prime membership rates?

by Reema Khrais
Jan 19, 2018
Amazon is raising its monthly Prime membership rate, from $10.99 to $12.99. But the annual membership cost is staying the same, at $99. So what’s the logic here? Is Amazon trying to push more people into becoming annual members? Might the price hike prompt some people to drop the service altogether? What are the pros […]
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Delta’s earnings show if demand for business travel is growing

by Reema Khrais
Jan 11, 2018
Delta Air Lines released its latest earnings report this morning, sharing just how much money it made during the last few months of 2017. The company beat Wall Street expectations, earning 96 cents per share. The airline has laid out some lofty goals to push its profit margin higher and contain costs this year. The […]
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