What is clear is that what happened in Newtown, as with all such cases, is that it forces us to ask: Is this how we want things to be, and if not what do we do about it?
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Jeff Greenfield on the lessons of tragedy
Jeff Greenfield on the lessons of tragedy
What is clear is that what happened in Newtown, as with all such cases, is that it forces us to ask: Is this how we want things to be, and if not what do we do about it?
December 21st, 2012
After Newtown: What's next for gun rights?
After Newtown: What's next for gun rights?
Much has been made this week about what, if anything, will happen legislatively regarding gun control. But the less reported story is that over the last few years, dozens of states have significantly rolled back gun restrictions.
December 21st, 2012
The MLK legacy in Memphis
The MLK legacy in Memphis
Playwright Katori Hall grew up in Memphis, TN., a city still haunted by the untimely death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her celebrated Broadway play, “To the Mountaintop,” starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson, was a musing on King’s last night. In this web exclusive she talks about the lasting legacy of Dr. [...]
December 14th, 2012
Katori Hall
Katori Hall
These kids on a daily basis are dealing with obstacles that you couldn't even dream of. How can-- how can you concentrate on words and math problems when you're just trying to survive?
December 14th, 2012
City Hall speaks
City Hall speaks
Anchor Ray Suarez interviews Linda Gibbs, Deputy Mayor of New York, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the most high-profile backers of the “Family Rewards” program. Gibbs talks about how changing behavior may help to lift young people out of poverty. In March 2007, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his intention [...]
December 14th, 2012
Earning potential
Earning potential
Need to Know travels to Memphis, Tennessee to cover the Family Rewards Program – an initiative that aims to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty by offering cash incentives. The program rewards low-income families with cash payments for good attendance, good grades, steady employment and going to the doctor and dentist. The goal is to [...]
December 14th, 2012
Combating poverty
Combating poverty
Need to Know travels to Memphis, Tennessee to cover the Family Rewards Program – an initiative that aims to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty by offering cash incentives.
December 14th, 2012
State battles over family planning dollars
State battles over family planning dollars
In 2010, Republicans won a decisive majority in the US House of Representatives and in many state legislatures around the nation. And lawmakers in several of those states have cut funding to Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations.
December 7th, 2012
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Over 40 years ago the Boston Women’s Collective published Our Bodies, Ourselves — a landmark for American women — a book about health by women, for women. Now, after a summer of scientific misstatements by politicians about women’s biology, the group has started the Educate Congress, an effort to send the book to every member [...]
December 7th, 2012
Pam Belluck
Pam Belluck
How have cuts to family planning budgets impacted other states? Need to Know anchor Scott Simon sits down with New York Times Health and Science writer Pam Belluck to determine whether the kinds of austere measures taken in Texas are happening in other parts of the country, including the Northeast. “Texas is experiencing by far [...]
December 7th, 2012
Lawmakers reconsider cuts
Lawmakers reconsider cuts
Historically in Texas, legislators saw family planning programs as a fiscally responsible solution to growing state costs stemming from unplanned pregnancies. But by the state's last legislative session, conservative thinking in the Lone Star State had shifted.
December 7th, 2012
Family planning in peril
Family planning in peril
The Texas legislature has slashed funding to family planning programs by nearly two-thirds.
December 4th, 2012
