Need To Know - America's immigration policy
Manufacturing Jobs
Need to Know examines how millions of jobs are unfilled, even during a period of high unemployment, because workers don't have the necessary skills. The program focuses on Alabama's efforts to train a new generation of shipyard workers to fight unemployment and attract business to the state. Labor...
Air date: 02/01/2013
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Do No Harm and Danish Medical Courts
Every year, one in 14 doctors in America will be sued for malpractice. Most lawsuits will be dismissed, or resolved in favor of the doctor; but the cost of insuring against such suits can be huge. And. correspondent William Brangham travels to Denmark, where medical disputes are settled by experts...
Air date: 01/25/2013
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Ending Paralysis: New Jersey and Germany
Need to Know explores why it takes nearly four times as long to complete infrastructure projects in the United States than it did in the 1970s. The Bayonne Bridge is a case study in gridlock. By comparison, correspondent Rick Karr reports on how German political parties of every stripe are now...
Air date: 01/18/2013
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A Tale of Four Tax Returns
As the discussion goes on in Washington about revising the federal tax code, "Need to Know" profiles four New Jersey residents with dramatically different incomes to demonstrate how current tax regulations disproportionately benefit some Americans more than others.
Air date: 01/11/2013
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Foreclosure crisis; Peter Sagal; David Grossman
Financial correspondent, Stacey Tisdale looks into the business of third party administrators for unemployment claims. Israeli journalist and writer David Grossman on his latest novel To The End of the Land. The home foreclosure fraud scandal with Micheal Hudson, author of The Monster: How a Gang...
Air date: 10/22/2010
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