Kaylee Wells

Kaylee Wells, Marketplace reporter who produced the Ohio/composting segment, explores composting efforts in a trash-importing state. Blake Farmer, Marketplace reporter, profiles people stuck in long-term job searches. Rachel Siegel, Washington Post reporter, analyzes inflation, consumer mood, and housing costs. Sadiq Reddy, journalist and economics commentator, discusses inflation drivers and energy market risks.

Kaylee Wells, a Marketplace reporter who covered maple syrup production in Middlefield, Ohio, shares scenes from a sugarbush and the farming process. Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Marketplace reporter focused on labor and policy, explains the Labor Department's proposed gig-worker classification rule. They discuss cold winters helping syrup season and the legal and economic questions around worker classification.