Need To Know - The Family Planning Fight
The Family Planning Fight
Need to know looks at the battle over family planning funding in the U.S. GOP lawmakers in Texas have cut the state?s family planning budget by 2/3, forcing many clinics that focus on women?s health to close. Health and science writer for The New York Times Pam Belluck on how state family planning...
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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...
Air date: 05/17/2013
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Help Wanted: Retraining America
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 we look at The National STEM Consortium ? a program designed to target this type of structural unemployment by improving the scientific,...
Air date: 05/03/2013
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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...
Air date: 04/26/2013
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Financial literacy
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. Anchor Ray Suarez interviews Richard...
Air date: 04/19/2013
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Main Street: Findlay, Ohio
Correspondent John Larson travels to Ohio to assess how workers are faring after the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs over the past 35 years.
Air date: 04/12/2013
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