Interview with Rachel Schneider, VP at the Center for Financial Services Innovation.

This week's essay features Mae Watson Grote, whose organization services the working poor.

Need to Know takes an in-depth look at the hard choices made by America's working poor.

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 [...]

Update on the case of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, allegedly killed by Border Patrol in 2010

Correspondent John Larson investigates stories of abuse and sexual assault at the border.

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 [...]

Rasanath Dasa, a former investment banker who participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests, quit his job to become a Hindu monk.

The American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison talks to Jeff Greenfield about how the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill has slowed our economic recovery.

Need to Know travels to D.C. to examine Better Markets, a nonprofit advocating for increased Wall Street regulation.

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.

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.