Stephanie Hughes
Senior Reporter at Marketplace
Senior Reporter @Marketplace, focusing on education. Alum @BloombergRadio @wypr881FM. Let's talk: [email protected]
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5 days ago |
marketplace.org | Stephanie Hughes
The federal government is going to stop keeping track of our most expensive climate disasters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday that it’s no longer updating a database of climate and weather-related events that cost over $1 billion in damages.
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6 days ago |
marketplace.org | Stephanie Hughes
Richard Whitfield has been a mulling over a name for his remote control car. “I think I’m gonna call it Betty,” he said. Whitfield bought Betty at Remote Control Hobbies, a store just north of Baltimore. He drives a truck for a living, and in his spare time he still likes to drive — by remote control. “Every day after work, go straight home, come right outside, pull it right out,” Whitfield said.
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6 days ago |
marketplace.org | Stephanie Hughes
In about a quarter of the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, the price and square footage of new homes are both going down, according to a new report out Thursday from Realtor.com. A lot of these cheaper, smaller new homes are being built in metro areas in the American South. “We're seeing a lot of new communities developing kind of on the outskirts of a lot of these Southern cities,” said economist Joel Berner, who wrote the Realtor.com report.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Stephanie Hughes
A couple economic data points for you for this story. Data point No. 1: There were 7.2 million job openings in March. That’s according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, out Tuesday morning. That’s about a million fewer than the same time a year ago. Data point No. 2 has to do with how people are feeling about how many jobs are out there.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Stephanie Hughes |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin
Last week, Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes met with Leyla Isik, a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University, at her lab where she's got some watercolors of brains on the wall. Isik is also a senior scientist on a new study looking at how good AI is at reading social cues. She and her research team took short videos of people doing things - two people chatting, two babies on a playmat, two people doing a synchronized skate routine - and showed them to human participants.
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