Kate Davidson
Reporter | OPBKate Davidson is OPB鈥檚 business and economics reporter.
Kate has deep experience reporting and producing for public media. Before moving to Oregon, she was a regular contributor to "Marketplace", a reporter at Michigan Radio focused on economic change in the industrial Midwest and a producer at NPR.
She has master鈥檚 degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She won a national Edward R. Murrow award for her NPR documentary, "Saints and Indians", which told the stories of Navajo children sent to live with white Mormon foster families across the West.
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The Paycheck Protection Program was designed as a lifeline for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. However, the emergency program has had a rocky launch. -
Oregonians are among the jaw-dropping 10 million Americans who've already lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. -
Northwest businesses shuttered by coronavirus are bracing for a wave of insurance denials.
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More than 76,500 Oregonians filed new unemployment claims last week. That's a 15-fold increase from the week before. -
The Oregon Department of State Lands is the guardian of $600 million in unclaimed property, including 18 military medals. -
Family farm bankruptcy filings are up across the country. They're growing fastest in the Northwest.
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After weeks of being denied entry, attorneys were finally allowed to meet with more than 120 immigration detainees who have been held at the federal prison in Sheridan for the last 27 days.
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鈥淚 grew up knowing my culture and appreciating it,鈥� said DACA recipient Karla Castenada, one of 800,000 DACA recipients. 鈥淏ut if I were to get deported to Mexico 鈥� I wouldn鈥檛 know how to be myself there.鈥�
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia鈥檚 role in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign does not get in the way of the Senate quest for answers.
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Noor Hilmi's family fled Iraq after her brother was kidnapped. Now they're refugees in Portland. They're also one of many families thrust into confusion by President Trump's travel ban.
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Diego Hernandez is a newly elected state representative from East Portland. As a kid, he watched his mother fall from a ladder he was supposed to hold steady. What happened next shaped the person he is today. OPB's "All Things Considered" host Kate Davidson spoke with Hernandez about his backstory.
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It鈥檚 Union Pacific鈥檚 fault. That鈥檚 the basic thrust of a preliminary report from federal railroad regulators Thursday.
