This week on Need to Know, Anchor Ray Suarez talk with three experts about Medicare's costly future.
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Saving Medicare?
This week on Need to Know, Anchor Ray Suarez talk with three experts about Medicare's costly future.
June 27th, 2013
Video: Subversive learning?
Need to Know travels to Tucson, Arizona, where a years-long dispute over a Mexican-American studies program has tensions high.
June 19th, 2013
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 […]
June 7th, 2013
Massachusetts mandate
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
May 31st, 2013
Down in the Salinas Valley
As the debate over immigration reform continues in Washington D.C., Need to Know offers an inside look at the lives of Latino farm workers.
May 22nd, 2013
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
Video: 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
Video: 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
Video: Certifiably employable
Rick Karr recently visited Seattle to look at a program designed to give the unemployed the skills they need to find jobs in one of the country’s fastest-growing industries.
May 3rd, 2013
Job Finder in Chief
Seth Harris, acting Secretary of Labor on the challenges of our new economy.
May 3rd, 2013
New vocations
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 by improving the scientific, technical and mathematical know-how of American workers.
April 30th, 2013
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
