While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically — roughly half the number than during peak years — just as many people are dying. Meaning for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly, more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history. For years the age [...]
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Dying to get back
Dying to get back
While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically — roughly half the number than during peak years — just as many people are dying. Meaning for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly, more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history. For years the age [...]
May 17th, 2013
Searching for answers
Searching for answers
Gladys Dominguez is the 19-year-old daughter of Alfonso Martinez Sanchez, a father of five American children who lived in the United States for more than 20 years. After being deported from Vista, California, Alfonso tried to return to his family in the U.S. three times, but was repeatedly stopped by Border Patrol agents and deported [...]
May 16th, 2013
Echoes of a shooting
Echoes of a shooting
On December 14, 1992, exactly 20 years before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a student went on a sudden rampage at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts. The gunfire killed a beloved student, Galen Gibson, and professor, Ñacuñán Sáez, and wounded four others. PBS Need to Know sat down with survivors of [...]
May 10th, 2013
Certifiably employable
Certifiably employable
More than 4 and a half million Americans have been without work for more than six months. And recent research points to a vicious cycle: not having a job makes it harder to get one, in part because employers are wary about hiring someone who’s been out of work that long. How can we get [...]
May 3rd, 2013
Job Finder in Chief
Job Finder in Chief
Seth Harris was nominated to be the Deputy Secretary of Labor on February 23, 2009. Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Harris served as a Professor of Law at New York Law School and Director of its Labor & Employment Law Programs. While teaching at the New York Law School, Mr. Harris was also a [...]
May 3rd, 2013
New vocations
New vocations
Even as unemployment remains stubbornly high, millions of jobs remain unfilled because many workers do not have the necessary training to fill them. This week, “Need to Know” correspondent Rick Karr travels to the state of Washington to report on The National STEM Consortium – a program designed to target this type of structural unemployment [...]
April 30th, 2013
Debating the Second Amendment
Debating the Second Amendment
With the gun control debate raging after the mass school shooting in Newtown, CT, Need to Know examines the history of the Second Amendment and how it shapes the discussion today. Ray Suarez anchors a panel including: George Mason Law School professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, former New York Times foreign correspondent and editor Craig Whitney, [...]
April 25th, 2013
Head start on savings
Head start on savings
To mark financial literacy month, “Need to Know” correspondent Stacey Tisdale travels to Mississippi to examine a program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college — and teach them about banking and money along the way. African-Americans, on average, earn less, bank less and save less. A lower percentage of African-Americans graduate [...]
April 19th, 2013
Financial literacy
Financial literacy
A program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college - and teach them about banking and money along the way.
April 17th, 2013
Consumer check-up
Consumer check-up
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau " is charged with overseeing the Federal financial laws that specifically protect consumers—people who keep their money in banks and credit unions, pay for goods and services with their credit cards, and rely on loans to buy homes or pay for college, among other services."
April 17th, 2013
Main Street: Findlay, Ohio
Main Street: Findlay, Ohio
How many times during the past several years have you heard one commentator or another express the same familiar lament? “We just don’t make anything anymore.” Of course, it’s not true. Not even close. No country exports more than the United States except China. What is true is that millions of manufacturing jobs have been [...]
April 10th, 2013
Save USA
Save USA
April 15 is just around the corner, and millions across the country are scrambling to get their taxes paid. But tax season may also offer a unique opportunity for some low-income Americans. “Save USA” is a program created by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and funded by federal, state and private dollars. The idea? [...]
April 5th, 2013
