Laura Benshoff is an interim reporter on NPR's National desk.
Before NPR, she spent eight years at WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR Member station. There, she covered education, health, politics, the economy and immigration. She has reported on the causes of the Great Resignation, Afghans left behind after the U.S. troop withdrawal and how a government-backed rent-to-own housing program failed its tenants. Other highlights from her time at WHYY include exploring the dynamics of the 2020 presidential election cycle through changing communities in central Pennsylvania and covering comedian Bill Cosby's criminal trials.
Benshoff is originally from North Carolina and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
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