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Need To Know | Fixing America | PBS

Duration: 10:32
Program: Need to Know #133
Broadcast Date: Dec. 17, 2010

Need to Know asked nine of the brightest thinkers in America to tell us one simple thing they'd do to get America moving again. Among the voices: Gary Shteyngart on immigration; Professor Tricia Rose of Brown University on race relations; author, activist Anna Lappe on the environment; and conservative writer Reihan Salam, on how he'd deal with poverty.

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Post Date: December 18, 2010