Kristin Schwab is a senior reporter at Marketplace focusing on the consumer economy. She's based in Queens, New York.

Consumer sentiment fell in early August, according to the University of Michigan’s regular index. But retail sales numbers — ...

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The agency has an unprecedented budget to carry out Trump’s agenda.

Retail giant Target and the beauty supply chain Ulta Beauty have announced the corporate equivalent of a “conscious ...

If we had a Medicare-for-all system, everyone would be in the same risk-pool, bringing down costs for patients.

President Trump has reportedly floated a plan that would have the U.S. government take partial control of Intel, the ailing ...

A new investigation finds that abuse rates are higher at nursing homes with more mental illness. There’s a financial reason ...

These caps limit the amount of federal loans students can borrow, which could deter students from applying or force them to ...

Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” ...

Import costs have surged in the country, sending inflation soaring to around 15% — that means shrinking international dollar ...

About a quarter of the 3.3% price increase recorded by this month’s producer price index was driven by a spike in wholesale ...