• Hard choices

    One family in Newark, N.J. keeps a monthly financial diary of expenditures, which demonstrates the difficult choices made each day by Americans living on the outskirts of the mainstream financial system.
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    Poll: Should candidates better address economic hardship?

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We take an in-depth look at the difficult spending decisions facing the nation's working poor.
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The Daily Need

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Everything you need to know about voter ID laws
Voter ID laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year.
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Poll: Should candidates better address economic hardship?
Do you think the candidates should address the issues of the working poor more than they are?
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  American Voices: What it means to be working poor
Mae Watson Grote is trying to inspire change on a local level by helping some of our nation’s most economically disadvantaged build financial security.
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  Interview: Serving 'underbanked' populations
Individuals and families who don’t fully utilize or don’t have access to traditional banking services spend an estimated $45 billion dollars annually on financial fees and interest.
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Pitchroom

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After Arizona and Aurora, will more guns make us safer?
As the nation begins to grapple with a seemingly senseless act of violence, both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have avoided calls for new gun laws.
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  Crossing the line, part 2
Border Patrol has strict official guidelines on the treatment of migrants staying in detention centers. Our report investigates whether these policies— and even international law —are being broken in the rush to secure the U.S. border.
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  Web exclusive: Grand jury to investigate border death
Need to Know's report on the circumstances surrounding the death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas has led to a federal grand jury probe.
Renewed call for inquiry into border abuses
  Members of Congress demand investigation
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Opinion

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Five lessons we should have learned in Afghanistan
As the war in Afghanistan reaches its 2014 transition, when the major combat mission ends and U.S. troops take on a more sedate training role, we should take the chance to look back on what lessons we’ve learned there.
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