Need To Know | Fri., Dec. 9, 2011 | PBS
Duration: 25:15 (Full Program)
Program:
Need to Know #213
Broadcast Date: Dec. 9, 2011
How can we make Congress work? Need to Know host Jeff Greenfield moderates a bipartisan panel discussing various proposals to get our government working again.
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Need To Know | Fixing... (#213)
Hip-hop artist DJ Spooky believes Americans can flourish with more investment in the arts. 00:55
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Need To Know | Fixing... (#213)
Bret Stephens on how the government can attract top talent. 01:54
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Need To Know | Fixing Government:... (#213)
Christine Quinn discusses why small businesses see government as an obstruction. 01:34
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Need To Know | Mayor under siege... (#213)
Need to Know chronicles the challenges faced by the mayor of Milwaukee. 13:56
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Coming up May 17 on Need to Know:... (#320)
In part three of its award-winning series on U.S. immigration policies done in conjunction with the Nation Institute,... 00:40
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Need to Know: May 3, 2013:... (#318)
Even as unemployment remains stubbornly high, millions of jobs remain unfilled because many workers do not have the... 02:08
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Need to Know: Debating the Second... (#317)
Full Program: With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know (... 25:17
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Need to Know: Coming up May 26... (#318)
With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know examines the history... 01:51
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Need to Know: Financial Literacy... (#316)
Full Program: To mark financial literacy month, "Need to Know" correspondent Stacey Tisdale travels to Mississippi to examine a... 25:17
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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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