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Amanda Peacher

Senior Acquisitions Editor

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Amanda Peacher works with the best talent in the public media network to acquire and edit stories for all of Marketplace's national radio shows.

Amanda previously worked as a senior reporter for Marketplace, as reporter and editor for the Mountain West News Bureau and as a bureau chief for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Her nationally recognized coverage centered on environmental and investigative stories. She holds master's degrees in environmental studies and literary nonfiction journalism from the University of Oregon and has taught courses at University of California, San Diego.

Amanda is originally from Boise, Idaho. She enjoys desert hiking, grilling homemade pizza on Friday nights and scouring thrift stores for vintage finds.

Latest Stories (105)

When restaurant and hospitality workers quit, where are they going?

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 14, 2021
Unemployment figures suggest they are leaving those industries.
The restaurant and hospitality industries have experienced plenty of turnover.
Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
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Day care providers struggle to compete with rising wages

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 13, 2021
The pandemic has shown that child care in the U.S. isn’t working. Most early childhood caregivers and teachers don’t earn a living wage.
The pandemic has only exacerbated the struggles of the child care industry.
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Hire by hire, child care centers chip away at labor shortage

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 13, 2021
Hiring has been chronically tough for early childhood education jobs, especially during the pandemic.
Many child care centers remain understaffed.
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Profit bumps could aid drugstores' evolution into health care centers

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 12, 2021
Many retail pharmacies are trying to expand even more to become health care hubs. 
People walk by a Walgreens store in San Francisco.
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Hourly wages rose for the sixth month in a row

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 8, 2021
The September wage numbers from the Labor Department are good news in particular for workers at restaurants, hotels and retail.
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Pressure mounts to require parents to work to get the child tax credit

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 6, 2021
Opponents fear that requirement could make the benefit inaccessible to the families who need it most.
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Community Change
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Warehouse space is getting tight

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 5, 2021
As retailers start to stock up for the holidays, space to store goods is at a premium
Warehouse space is shrinking as the holidays approach.
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There's still a paper shortage. You know what that means.

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 4, 2021
School supplies, holiday cards and, yes, toilet paper are all affected.
Shortages in paper products come down to paper pulp. It’s produced in mills, which are slowed down because of worker shortages right now.
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Home prices have been rising all year. Will mortgage rates catch up?

by Amanda Peacher
Sep 27, 2021
Rates could soon start ticking up, but homebuyers are mostly focused on the size of that monthly mortgage payment.
Higher mortgage rates could benefit homebuyers by cooling down the hot housing market.
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Stores are limiting purchases of some products. This time, blame the supply chain.

by Amanda Peacher
Sep 24, 2021
Restrictions on purchases can backfire, causing customers to want to stock up on limited supplies.
A shopper at a Costco store in Alhambra, California in August 2019. Costco and other stores are once again limiting the number of water bottles, cleaning products and paper supplies that customers can purchase.
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