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Need To Know - Gun control, Haiti, high-speed rail

Gun control, Haiti, high-speed rail Gun control, Haiti, high-speed rail
In the wake of the Arizona shooting, we revisit a story on gun rights and examine current laws. Also: two Haitian children treated in Boston after the earthquake. A Blueprint America report that examines the prospects for high-speed rail in the midwest in light of starkly opposing political views....
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1744090736/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false In the wake of the Arizona shooting, we revisit a story on gun rights and examine current laws. Also: two Haitian children treated in Boston after the earthquake. A Blueprint America report that examines the prospects for high-speed rail in the midwest in light of starkly opposing political views.... /episodes/get/2190 /episode/2190 Need To Know: Gun control, Haiti, high-speed rail /episode-player/2190
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Massachusetts mandate update
Massachusetts mandate update
The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate included President Obama?s Affordable Care Act. How might it work? Need to Know medical correspondent Emily Senay, M.D. travels to Massachusetts, the only state in the nation that already requires everyone to have health insurance - part of a 2006...
Air date: 05/31/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365020353/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate included President Obama?s Affordable Care Act. How might it work? Need to Know medical correspondent Emily Senay, M.D. travels to Massachusetts, the only state in the nation that already requires everyone to have health insurance - part of a 2006... /episodes/get/9391 /episode/9391 Need To Know: Massachusetts mandate update /episode-player/9391
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...
Air date: 05/17/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365012816/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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... /episodes/get/8765 /episode/8765 Need To Know: Dying to get back /episode-player/8765
Help Wanted: Retraining America
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 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365004827/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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,... /episodes/get/8695 /episode/8695 Need To Know: Help Wanted: Retraining America /episode-player/8695
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...
Air date: 04/26/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365002459/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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... /episodes/get/8644 /episode/8644 Need To Know: Debating the Second Amendment /episode-player/8644
Financial literacy
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 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2364997817/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false 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... /episodes/get/8575 /episode/8575 Need To Know: Financial literacy /episode-player/8575