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Peter Balonon-Rosen

Producer

Peter produced the narrative podcasts “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” He also reported radio features for Marketplace’s radio programs, wrote for our website and served as an in-studio and field photographer. What was your first job? Dishwasher What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows? Video conferences. In your next life, what would your career be? Foley artist. Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______. Snacks for the snack desk. What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment? Seeking out tornadoes with storm chasers for half a week to report a story about the business of storm chasing. Watching severe storms develop over the prairies of Nebraska was breathtaking.

Latest from Peter Balonon-Rosen

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    One woman’s fight against Silicon Valley’s racial pay gap. Plus, why it’s so hard for Black workers in tech to get ahead.

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  • Nikki Massie and her parents when she completed her bachelor's degree.
    Courtesy Nikki Massie

    Years ago, one woman put college on hold because she couldn’t afford it. Now she faces a hard choice to keep history from repeating itself. Plus: What will college even look like this fall?

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  • Answering your “History of Now” questions
    Ben Hethcoat/Marketplace

    We’re capping off our season by answering your questions about chicken workers, health insurance and more.

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  • The Exhibition Hall at the Seattle Center has been turned into a temporary men's shelter on April 6, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The space currently has 150 beds, separated six feet apart.
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    Facilities sheltering unhoused people have become COVID-19 hotspots. But how did these communal living facilities become our primary response to homelessness in the first place?

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  • It’s expensive to get arrested
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    A teenager protesting police brutality lands in jail, and we try to understand the tricky business of bail.

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  • There are cracks in the foundation of our housing system
    F. Roy Kemp/BIPS/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    Generations of discriminatory housing policy, and lending practices that favored white borrowers, have entrenched segregation and inequality in American cities.

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  • ![Some of the first recipients wait to receive benefits at the division office of the State Employment Service in San Francisco, California, 1938.
    Library of Congress

    Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by design. An episode from The Uncertain Hour’s pop-up season A History of Now.

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  • ![Some of the first recipients wait to receive benefits at the division office of the State Employment Service in San Francisco, California, 1938.
    Library of Congress

    The program dates back to the Great Depression, and even then it wasn’t meant to cover everyone.

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  • When we started talking with Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg and Mahta Ahmed, she was planning to go to Northwestern on a full-tuition scholarship, and he was applying for the super-competitive engineering program at UCLA.
    Courtesy: Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg

    When you’re 17 or 18, you make choices that can dictate the course of your life. Making those choices during a pandemic is even harder.

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  • Whether it's 14th century Italy or present-day America, the history of quarantine has always been divided along economic lines.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Long gone are the days of the government sending your family fennel sausage, cheese and wine to make it through.

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