Kimberly Adams
@kimberlyadams.bsky.social
Host and Senior Editor of “Marketplace Morning Report”, guest Host on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal", auntie, motorcyclist, and mermaid. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report
I had the pleasure of talking to @hughesstephanie.bsky.social at @marketplace.org about a depressing topic: health insurance taking a growing bite out of US workers' paychecks. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
Rising health insurance costs may take a bite out of your paycheck
Health insurance costs for employers have been growing at a high rate. To cope, experts said employers could raise costs, hold off hiring, or cut into employee raises.
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Public money is fueling a huge growth in private schools. There's no real tracking or monitoring so @propublica.org embarked on a count, finding new schools in barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, churches & a family fun center. www.propublica.org/article/priv...
Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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FEDWATCH, on this morning weak labor participation: “.. younger people drop out because they can't find work, and 55-year-olds and older retire early as their 401K/IRAs have gains large enough that they can draw Wall Street salary levels for the next 30 years.””
Three Marketplace legends in one room: David Brancaccio, Kimberly Adams, and a T-shirt with David’s face on it. 😎👕 Get your own David Brancaccio tee when you donate $11/month or more to Marketplace! Make your gift now: https://mktplc.org/4eYw83E
The standard of living for Black households and small businesses faltered in 2025 and through the start of 2026 due to a variety of Trump Administration policies: www.cbpp.org/research/eco...
Republican Megabill Implementation and Trump Administration Actions Will Deepen Harms for Black Households and Small Businesses
The Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress have adopted policies that adversely impact people of all races, including Black individuals and families.
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“The great success of Fairfax, Virginia, highlights the value of immigration to the country.” — Cato's Director of Immigration Studies David J. Bier, testifying before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. Full testimony: https://youtu.be/UeRdruJGy2g
We are excited to announce that Kimberly Adams is the new host of our weekday morning show, Marketplace Morning Report! Currently Marketplace Senior Washington Correspondent and host of Make Me Smart, Kimberly will officially step into her new role June 8. Congratulations, Kimberly!
Our latest tracking poll finds that health care costs continue to top the public’s list of economic anxieties, even as fuel prices and economic uncertainty rose following the start of the Iran war.
For decades, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has offered college scholarships to Black students. A new lawsuit by a prominent anti-affirmative action group now alleges those scholarships discriminate on the basis of race.
Black Caucus scholarships discriminate based on race, lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit, filed by an anti-affirmative action group, is part of a broader movement to dismantle programs meant to remedy the effects of past discrimination.
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Not too worry, this is simply an efficient allocation of correctly priced risk to parties willing to hold it, and we can be sure of that because if markets ever systematically mispriced the risks associated with structured financial products, we would have seen episodes of contagion and crisis.
From Torsten Slok, chief economist, Apollo: For every $5 the U.S. government collects in taxes, $1 goes toward paying interest on the debt.
I should clarify that there were two separate findings of liability involving 37,500 violations. So that's ~$375 million in a state that contains 0.62% of the US population. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Jury orders Meta to pay $375 mln in New Mexico lawsuit over child sexual exploitation, user safety
A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Insta...
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Jeff Horwitz@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 5mo agoVerdict is in for the New Mexico child safety case against Meta. Goes against Meta on every question. Jury finds Meta liable for ~37,000 violations. Maximum liability of $5,000 per violation.
I spoke to Marketplace "Make Me Smart" podcast host and senior Washington correspondent @kimberlyadams.bsky.social about the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute and what it tells us about where tech firms are drawing their "red lines" when it comes to military applications of AI.
Who gets to set limits on AI?
We’ll unpack the fight between Big Tech and the Trump administration over artificial intelligence.
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My nephew is 13 and I started talking to him about my experiences of sexual assault just recently. He was clearly shook. I chatted with his mother first, and we agreed on a strategy & appropriate language in advance, but these conversations are important.
Da Real Juicy J@realjuicyjay.blacksky.app · 5mo agoQuestion for the female population: Have you ever sat down with your son, brother, cousin or makes you are close to and told them that you were the victim of sexual assault (including what happened and how it impacted you) or sexual harassment?
We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...
For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be.
A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.
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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 5mo agoI have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents
Several states have expanded dental services for Medicaid patients in recent years. But with federal funding cuts looming from the Big Beautiful Bill, many states could roll back coverage. “We will lose all the gains we have made,” one dental policy researcher said.
Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend. - KFF Health News
More than three dozen states cover dental services for low-income and disabled individuals on Medicaid, in recognition of such care’s importance to overall health. But with about $900 billion in fundi...
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Again… and we in the media cannot say this enough…. Almost ALL of the tariffs are being paid by US consumers and companies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoTrump: "I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will like in the past substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love"
trump again says other countries pay tariffs, but that's not true. we pay tariffs. they're costing the average us household more than $1000 per year.
Someone asked me earlier today if I was going to try to fact-check what the president would say about the economy in the SOTU tonight… and I just stared blankly at the horizon.
I have to watch the State of the Union because I sinned in a past life and am being punished by a vengeful God.
For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million. The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing
The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.
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What do Medicaid cuts, ACA premium hikes, and the Rural Health Transformation Program mean for rural hospitals+patients? Listen to my interview on Make Me Smart from @marketplace.org! Thanks for having me on+caring about rural health, @kimberlyadams.bsky.social! www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
Congress set aside $50 billion to transform rural health care. Will it work?
We’ll explain the ins and outs of the Rural Health Transformation Program.
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THREAD: The Supreme Court has just ruled that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Trump used IEEPA to impose large swaths of his “reciprocal” tariffs. Here's some of our research & stay tuned for more 👇
84 years ago #todayinhistory, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers." Descendants of the prisoners have restored a baseball field on the Manzanar site as a way to both celebrate the resiliency of so many of their ancestors. theconversation.com/baseball-ret...
