Samantha Fields

Stephanie Hughes, Marketplace reporter who produced an office gossip piece, delves into workplace rumor dynamics. Ellen Cushing, Atlantic staff writer, traces the rise of limited “product drops” and resale economics. Samantha Fields reports on ACA subsidy fallout and rising uninsured rates. Amira Omokwe explains Fed inflation concerns. Sudeep Reddy analyzes labor shifts and oil price risks.

Nova Safo, reporter who covers culture and physical media, and Samantha Fields, health and science reporter, join Sabri Beneshore, housing and mortgage reporter. They dig into the Fed's review of mortgage capital rules and how banks left the market after 2008. Other highlights include vaccine research funding shifts and the surprising comeback of DVDs and video stores.

Samantha Fields, a senior health-care policy reporter, walks through how a proposed HHS rule and state bans are forcing hospitals and clinics to curb gender-affirming care for minors. She outlines why some programs are closing, how families are coping with disrupted access, and the strategies providers use to keep offering services under pressure.

Samantha Fields, a senior Marketplace reporter covering health care, discusses the fallout from a proposed HHS rule targeting gender-affirming care for minors. She outlines what such care includes. She describes hospitals preemptively closing programs, state-level restrictions, tracking challenges, providers’ moral injury, alternative uninsured care models, and families relocating for treatment.

Samantha Fields, a Marketplace reporter who investigated policy impacts on transgender youth, speaks with providers and families. She chronicles hospitals halting care and clinics scrambling to help. Short scenes show clinicians’ strain, fears about funding and jobs, and why many continue offering care despite the risks.