Video: Need to Know
NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a web-based production model that empowers audiences to "tune in" anytime and anywhere. A cross-media initiative built around a wide community of journalists and producers, with input from an engaged audience, NEED TO KNOW covers five primary beats: the economy; the environment and energy; health; security; and culture. Stories, interviews, blogs and photo features are continually added to and updated online, with the production teams inviting interaction and input from online readers and users who are on the lookout for the latest information on a given subject. Each week's online story development culminates in the weekly broadcast, curated from the week's reporting by the various beat teams. The broadcast features documentary-style field reports, both domestic and international, short features and studio-based interviews and conversation to complement and advance the produced reports.
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Coming up May 17 on Need to Know: Border Patrol, Part 3 | PBS (#320)
In part three of its award-winning series on U.S. immigration policies done in conjunction with the Nation Institute, Need to Know ( www.pbs.org/wnet/n.. 00:40
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Need to Know: May 3, 2013: Certifiably employable | PBS (#318)
Even as unemployment remains stubbornly high, millions of jobs remain unfilled because many workers do not have the necessary training to fill them. This wee... 02:08
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Need to Know: Debating the Second Amendment | PBS (#317)
Full Program: With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know ( www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/... examines the history o... 25:17
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Need to Know: Coming up May 26 2013: American Gun Debate | PBS (#318)
With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know examines the history of the Second Amendment and how it shapes... 01:51
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Need to Know: Financial Literacy | PBS (#316)
Full Program: To mark financial literacy month, "Need to Know" correspondent Stacey Tisdale travels to Mississippi to examine a program designed to help low-income, mostly... 25:17
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Need to Know: Main Street, Findlay, Ohio | PBS (#315)
Full Program: What is the state of American manufacturing today? Is it coming back, as the president says? And will we be able to compete once again? ( www.pbs.org/w.. 25:12
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Need to Know: Behavioral economics at work | PBS (#314)
Full Program: How behavioral economics can encourage low-income workers to save. ( www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/... William Brangham reports on workers who have repai... 25:16
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Need to Know: Coming up 4/5: Behavioral economics | PBS (#314)
How behavioral economics can encourage low-income workers to save. William Brangham reports on workers who have repaid emergency loans and continue to take t... 01:48
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Need to Know: Economic inequality and mobility | PBS (#314)
Full Program: A round table discussion on economic inequality, mobility, debt, and the state of the American economy four years after the official end of the recession. Gu... 24:50
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Need to Know: Medical Device Safety | PBS (#313)
Full Program: "Need to Know" medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay examines whether the Food and Drug Administration's medical device review process is adequately protecti... 25:16
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NEED TO KNOW | The family planning fight in Texas | PBS
Republican lawmakers in Texas have cut the state's family planning budget by two-thirds, forcing many clinics that focus on women's health to close across th... 12:14
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NEED TO KNOW | American Voices: Playwright Katori Hall | PBS
Playwright Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," a musing on Martin Luther King's last night, played on Broadway. Her play "Hurt Village" takes place in a contemp... 03:40
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NEED TO KNOW | NYC Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs | PBS
Anchor Ray Suarez interviews Linda Gibbs, Deputy Mayor in New York, where Michael Bloomberg is a major backer of the "Family Rewards" program. Gibbs talks ab... 04:21
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NEED TO KNOW | Earning Potential | PBS
Stacey Tisdale travels to Memphis to examine if the city's experimental "Family Rewards" program, which offers cash incentives to motivate high school studen... 14:13
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NEED TO KNOW | Frequent Fliers | PBS
Full Program: Medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay investigates readmission penalties, an element of the Affordable Care Act designed to reduce costs and lead to more coo... 25:08
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NEED TO KNOW | A Tale of Four Tax Returns | PBS
Full Program: As the discussion goes on in Washington about revising the federal tax code, "Need to Know" profiles four New Jersey residents with dramatically different in... 25:09
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NEED TO KNOW | Can Medicare be Fixed? | PBS
Full Program: Ray Suarez hosts a panel of experts to explore how to save Medicare. Peter Suderman is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Paul N. Van de Wate... 25:16
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NEED TO KNOW | The Long View | PBS
More than 10 million people in the U.S. already have long-term health care needs, and that number is only going to grow as baby boomers and their parents liv... 11:09
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NEED TO KNOW | Ending government paralysis | PBS
Full Program: Need to Know explores why it takes nearly four times as long to complete infrastructure projects in the United States than it did in the 1970s. The Bayonne Bridge is a case study in gridlock. By... 24:46
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NEED TO KNOW | Outlawed in Arizona | PBS
Full Program: This week "Need to Know' travels to Tucson, Arizona, where a years-long dispute over a Mexican-American studies program has tensions high; supporters say it has helped re-engage at risk students and... 25:16
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