Shaheen Ainpour

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Shaheen Ainpour is a former Marketplace production intern. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a degree in finance and journalism. Before coming to Marketplace, Shaheen was a summer intern at NPR. He likes radio.

Latest Stories (99)

The dot-com URL is still king

Buying the right domain name at the wrong time can command a hefty price tag.
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One year later: we check in on the refugee settlement in Erie, Pennsylvania

Jan 18, 2018
Erie, which voted for President Trump, has one of the largest populations of refugees in the country.
Dylanna Jackson is a director of a resettlement program in Erie. 
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You may need to get used to the threat of government shutdown

Jan 18, 2018
This economy has been reduced to getting by on a never-ending series of four week budget stopgaps.
The House of Representatives has been holding virtual hearings during the pandemic, but lawmakers have been required to vote in person or have another member of Congress cast a proxy vote on their behalf.
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Denver wants to help the middle class move on up

Jan 16, 2018
A new housing subsidy plan in Denver aims to make high end apartments affordable.

Business books deliver new buzz words with the old hype

Jan 11, 2018
Want to realize your untapped potential? How about boost your ______. Those are the kind of promises that grace the cover of some of the 11,000 business books published in the United States each year. But has the language used to to market these books changed over time? Miriam Quick analyzed decades’ worth of business […]

Why we're hanging up the power suit

Jan 10, 2018
Power suits are out. That may not come as a shock in the era of hoodie-wearing billionaires, but it doesn’t mean suits are gone for good. Millennial men are still buying suits, just not for work. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke with Robin Givhan, fashion critic for The Washington Post, who wrote about the demise […]

The blackout in Puerto Rico is hurting hospitals

Jan 8, 2018
Puerto Rico still hasn’t recovered from Hurricane Maria. Along with the enormous human impact, the island’s infrastructure is in disrepair. The Associated Press reports that over 40 percent of the island’s power customers continue to live without electricity. Now the effects are being felt in the wider American economy. A big chunk of the IV […]

Why you'll be seeing so much black on the red carpet

Jan 5, 2018
The Golden Globes will be getting an all-black makeover in solidarity with Time's Up.
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Your grocer really wants you to have chicken tonight

Jan 5, 2018
At a lot of markets, the rotisserie bird is the hottest-selling item, pun intended.
Grocers are going to some lengths to keep the price of rotisserie chickens down.
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The White House was busy while you weren't looking

Jan 3, 2018
President Trump issued a slew of regulatory rollbacks over the holidays.
President Donald Trump cuts red tape tied between two stacks of papers representing the government regulations of the 1960s, left, and the regulations of today at the White House on Dec. 14, 2017.
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