Need to Know is an American public television news program produced by WNET, and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate-stations in the United States. It aired from May 2010 until June 2013. PBS stated that the show was intended to fill the public-affairs and "hard"/investigative news void left by both the one-hour Bill Moyers Journal, and the cancelled, half-hour NOW on PBS. Both departing shows had been long-running, highly rated, and critically acclaimed for their journalistic quality, and focus on issues that deeply impacted regular Americans' lives, yet went largely ignored by commercial TV news outlets. "NTK" branded itself the "TV and Web newsmagazine [that] gives you what you need to know." PBS had described the show as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to news-gathering and reporting."
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Season 2012
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01. Help wanted: New Hampshire
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02. Sexual politics
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03. Voting, power and South Carolina
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04. Florida, seniors and entitlements
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05. Foreclosures in Nevada, high-tech jobs
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06. Student debt, college and religion
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07. Food stamps, poverty in America
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08. Main Street, Cairo
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09. ‘Help Wanted’ in Ohio
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10. Cleaning up the tax mess
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11. Revisiting ‘The Corner,’ bridging the racial divide
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12. Update on military veterans
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13. Texas justice
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14. Help Wanted: Philadelphia
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15. Power to the people
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16. Crossing the line, part 1
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17. Sea-level rise, death on the border
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18. The view from Main Street, leaving Afghanistan and Dan Savage on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
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19. Legal immigration, entrepreneurship
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20. Financial inclusion
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21. Green jobs, volunteerism
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22. The future of health care
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23. International justice
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24. America’s immigration policies
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25. Homecoming for veterans
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26. Solving poverty in America
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27. Braking the banks
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28. Crossing the line, part 2
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29. Living on the financial edge
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30. Rahm’s grand plan
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31. August 10, 2012
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32. August 17, 2012
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33. August 24, 2012
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34. August 31, 2012
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35. September 7, 2012
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