Need To Know | Fri., Jan. 6, 2011 | PBS
Duration: 25:08 (Full Program)
Program:
Need to Know #217
Broadcast Date: Jan. 6, 2012
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Need to Know visits Nashua. The poverty rate in New Hampshire is the lowest in the nation and the unemployment rate is the fourth lowest. But Need to Know also discovered many people drowning in debt, unable to pay back their student loans or to pay their medical debt.
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Need To Know | Help Wanted: New... (#217)
How is Main Street doing? 21:24
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Need to Know: Debating the Second... (#317)
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Need to Know: Coming up May 26... (#318)
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Need to Know: Financial Literacy... (#316)
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Need to Know: Main Street,... (#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... 25:12
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Need to Know: Behavioral... (#314)
Full Program: How behavioral economics can encourage low-income workers to save. ( www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/... William... 25:16
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Need to Know: Coming up 4/5:... (#314)
How behavioral economics can encourage low-income workers to save. William Brangham reports on workers who have repaid... 01:48
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Need to Know: Economic... (#314)
Full Program: A round table discussion on economic inequality, mobility, debt, and the state of the American economy four years... 24:50
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Need to Know: Medical Device... (#313)
Full Program: "Need to Know" medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay examines whether the Food and Drug Administration's medical... 25:16
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NEED TO KNOW | The family...
Republican lawmakers in Texas have cut the state's family planning budget by two-thirds, forcing many clinics that... 12:14
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NEED TO KNOW | American Voices:...
Playwright Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," a musing on Martin Luther King's last night, played on Broadway. Her play... 03:40
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NEED TO KNOW | NYC Deputy Mayor...
Anchor Ray Suarez interviews Linda Gibbs, Deputy Mayor in New York, where Michael Bloomberg is a major backer of the... 04:21
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NEED TO KNOW | Earning Potential...
Stacey Tisdale travels to Memphis to examine if the city's experimental "Family Rewards" program, which offers cash... 14:13
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NEED TO KNOW | Frequent Fliers...
Full Program: Medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay investigates readmission penalties, an element of the Affordable Care Act... 25:08
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NEED TO KNOW | A Tale of Four Tax...
Full Program: As the discussion goes on in Washington about revising the federal tax code, "Need to Know" profiles four New Jersey... 25:09
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NEED TO KNOW | Can Medicare be...
Full Program: Ray Suarez hosts a panel of experts to explore how to save Medicare. Peter Suderman is a senior editor at Reason... 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... 11:09
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