Alina Selyukh Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR.
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Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she covers retail, low-wage work, big brands and other aspects of the consumer economy. Her work has been recognized by the Gracie Awards, the National Headliner Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Before joining NPR in 2015, Selyukh spent five years at Reuters, where she covered tech, telecom and cybersecurity policy, campaign finance during the 2012 election cycle, health care policy and the Food and Drug Administration, and a bit of financial markets and IPOs.

Previously, Selyukh reported for CNN in Moscow, ABC News in Nebraska, and NationalJournal.com in Washington, D.C. At her alma mater, she helped in the production of a documentary for NET Television, Nebraska's PBS station. Selyukh began her career in journalism at age 13, freelancing for a local TV station and several newspapers in her home town of Samara in Russia.

She received a bachelor's degree in broadcasting, news-editorial and political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Wednesday

Yazmin Lopez, here at home in Madison, Wis., first learned about credit scores from a personal finance book she picked up at Goodwill a few years after coming to the U.S. as a teenager. Lianne Milton for NPR hide caption

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Welcome to America! Now learn to be in debt

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Tuesday

America's debt culture is a complicated journey for some immigrants

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Monday

Shoppers stand outside a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New Jersey. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption

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Bed Bath & the great Beyond: How the home goods giant went bankrupt

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Sunday

Bed Bath & Beyond has lost shoppers and money after a series of ineffective or mistimed turnaround attempts. It has also exhausted numerous financial lifelines. Shown here is a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Westbury, New York. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

David's Bridal has filed for bankruptcy again

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Tuesday

Bed Bath & Beyond's stock keeps dropping lower

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Saturday

Bed Bath & Beyond's stock now costs 31 cents. How low can it go?

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Wednesday

Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images; Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption

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In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

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Tuesday

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Barnes & Noble opened this new store in Pikesville, Md., as it began its biggest expansion in years. Alina Selyukh/NPR hide caption

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How Barnes & Noble turned a page, expanding for the first time in years

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Saturday

Americans are spending more, but big chain stores say financial 'uncertainty' remains

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Big stores see how we spend. Here are 4 things they say about the economy

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Friday

Barnes & Noble is staging its biggest expansion in more than a decade

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Thursday

Saturday

What prices at a Walmart in Georgia tell us about inflation

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Thursday

People shop at Walmart on Black Friday 2022 in Dunwoody, Ga. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images hide caption

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What tracking one Walmart store's prices for years taught us about the economy

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Wednesday

Party City files for bankruptcy to get its debt under control

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Sunday

As department stores continue to shut down, dollar stores see a resurgence

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Saturday

Singer-songwriter Judith Owen on her new album of jazz classics

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2022 on track to be a record year for shopping returns

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