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Kristin Schwab

Brooklyn, New York

Senior Reporter at Marketplace

Senior reporter @marketplace, teaching @columbiajourn | produced @nytimes, @nymag, @wsj | former ballet dancer | Drop Dead Gorgeous was filmed in my hometown

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab

    It’s been a dicey year, it seems, for people who work in retail. The industry has cut nearly 76,000 jobs from January through May according to new data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. That’s second only to DOGE-related government layoffs and is a 274% increase from the retail job cuts announced over the same period last year. That’s a big number, 274. At first glance, maybe a red flag kind of number.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab

    As the immigration raids and protests in Los Angeles continue, there will be immediate and long-term effects, of course, for the individuals and families involved. Increased immigration enforcement across the country also has effects on the labor market, both locally and nationally. About a third of domestic workers in the U.S. — nannies, house cleaners and caregivers — are immigrants. And many are undocumented, said Ai-jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

  • 2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab

    Long Island is the birthplace of suburban America. And you can still sort of feel that when you drive around here in Farmingdale, New York, with its vinyl-sided houses, freshly-cut lawns, and American flags. “You look down the block here and everybody that owns a house has a union affiliation.

  • 3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab

    It’s been just over four months since President Donald Trump came into office and started overhauling trade policy, and in that time a lot has happened. Here are the latest bullet points: Just last week, a panel of federal judges ruled that some of Trump’s tariffs are illegal. Then on Friday, the president announced he’d double tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%. That, of course, will have a real impact on everything from appliance makers to canned food manufacturers to you, the consumer.

  • 4 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kristin Schwab

    Julie Yang and Daniel Thao only live a block away from their neighborhood playground in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, but they drove the minivan to get here because it’s easier with all the kids. They park and the little ones toddle out, Happy Meals in tow. There’s Ostin, Tatum, Isla, Harvey and Asher — five kids, ages one to eight. And soon there will be a sixth, a baby boy due in June. “So we tried for my daughter, to get her a sister.

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Kristin Schwab
Kristin Schwab @kkschwab
15 Apr 24

I will die on this hill https://t.co/GC9L1v3AGK

Kristin Schwab
Kristin Schwab @kkschwab

Are we still on Twitter? And if so why hasn’t Survivor adjusted its $1 million prize for inflation after 23 years

Kristin Schwab
Kristin Schwab @kkschwab
22 Jan 24

I miss Twitter so I'll be logging on twice a year to repost this I guess.

Kristin Schwab
Kristin Schwab @kkschwab

Are we still on Twitter? And if so why hasn’t Survivor adjusted its $1 million prize for inflation after 23 years

Kristin Schwab
Kristin Schwab @kkschwab
8 Nov 23

If you email with a read receipt request fyi I will always click no 🫠