In our ongoing series “Your Money, Your Life,” Need to Know takes an in-depth look at the difficult spending decisions facing the nation’s working poor. This week’s episode profiles one Newark, N.J. family, who keeps a monthly financial diary detailing its expenditures, including the additional costs incurred by living in a poor neighborhood and by [...]
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Need to Know, July 20, 2012: Crossing the line, part 2
In the rush to stem the tide of undocumented immigrants, has Border Patrol committed widespread abuse on American soil? A former Border Patrol agent blows the whistle on unacceptable conditions in detention centers, including massive over-crowding and detainees who claim they were deprived of food and water. This groundbreaking report has been produced with assistance [...]
Need to Know: July 13, 2012: Braking the banks
Need to Know profiles Better Markets, a nonprofit advocacy organization that believes additional banking regulations are needed to prevent another financial meltdown. Jeff Greenfield hosts.
Need to Know, July 6, 2012: Cleaning up the tax mess
This week, Need to Know’s Ray Suarez hosts a panel of tax experts including former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer; Emory University tax law expert Dorothy Brown; Bruce Bartlett, who served presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush; and Cato Institute economist Dan Mitchell.
Need to Know, June 29, 2012: Solving poverty in America
Need to Know examines a successful experimental program in Oakland, Calif., designed to help the working poor emerge from poverty. Anchor Maria Hinojosa interviews Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Monsignor Kevin Sullivan discusses society’s duty to the poor.
Need to Know, June 22, 2012: Homecoming for veterans
This week’s Need to Know examines how long-term care for veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan is placing a growing strain on America’s health care providers. Scott Simon hosts.
Need to Know, June 15, 2012: America’s immigration policies
As part of its “Fixing America” series, Need to Know anchor Ray Suarez hosts a panel discussion about America’s immigration policies. Among the topics: has President Obama reneged on his promises of immigration reform? Is Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s proposal for “self-deportation” realistic?
Need to Know, June 8, 2012: International justice
This week’s show explores genocide and how to punish those who perpetrate it. We report from Cambodia, where former leaders of the Khmer Rouge are being tried for the mass murders committed decades ago. Author Philip Gourevitch talks to host Ray Suarez.
Need to Know, June 1, 2012: The future of health care
Need to Know medical correspondent Emily Senay, M.D. traveled to Massachusetts to see how health reform is working there. She talked to doctors, insurers, politicians, small business owners, and the people most affected by the state legislation – patients in search of affordable care. Scott Simon hosts.
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