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Need to Know Season 2011

January. 07,2011

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Need to Know

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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Need to Know Season 2011 Full Episode Guide

Episode 51 - Eye on Iowa

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 50 - Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 49 - Mayor under siege

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Episode 48 - Making Congress work

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Episode 47 - Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio

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Episode 46 - Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown

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Episode 45 - The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices

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Episode 44 - Coming home: The enduring sacrifice

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Episode 43 - Creating opportunity

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Episode 42 - Jobs in the balance

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Episode 41 - The nuclear question

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Episode 40 - The politics of resentment

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Episode 39 - Help wanted

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Episode 38 - Chemical pollution and the EPA

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Episode 37 - Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale

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Episode 36 - Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector

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Episode 35 - 9-11, Ten Years Later

First Aired: September. 09,2011

A special edition on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. We visit three military families to see how the nation’s longest war effort has affected military children. Also: Six-word memoirs on 9/11, and an “In Perspective” essay from Jon Meacham.

Episode 34 - Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping

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Episode 33 - Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change

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Episode 32 - Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon

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Episode 31 - The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall

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Episode 30 - Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons

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Episode 29 - Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality

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Episode 28 - Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling

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Episode 27 - California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem

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Episode 26 - Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety

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Episode 25 - Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times

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Episode 24 - Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages

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Episode 23 - New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome

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Episode 22 - Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse

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Episode 21 - Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity

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Episode 20 - Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown

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Episode 19 - Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet

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Episode 18 - Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers

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Episode 17 - Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women

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Episode 16 - Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago

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Episode 15 - Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit

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Episode 14 - The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education

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Episode 13 - Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat

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Episode 12 - Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research

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Episode 11 - Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation

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Episode 10 - Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions

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Episode 9 - Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions

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Episode 8 - Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates

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Episode 7 - The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking

First Aired: February. 18,2011

How many universes are there? Author Brian Greene explains. Plus: A fracking update, a look at what’s next in Egypt and an interview author Parag Khanna.

Episode 6 - Ahead of the Class

First Aired: February. 11,2011

As the nation debates how to get the best performance out of students and teachers, Need to Know presents an hour devoted to success stories in teaching.

Episode 5 - Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s

First Aired: February. 04,2011

Amid the upheaval in Egypt, we turn our attention to the political tension between Egypt and the U.S. Also, the defunct “death panel” provision, a new scan for Alzheimer’s, and “Reagan.”

Episode 4 - Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?

First Aired: January. 28,2011

Getting older in the car-dependent suburbs, the State of the Union and the state of the Congo. Plus: an animated editorial by Steve Brodner.

Episode 3 - Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China

First Aired: January. 21,2011

This week, we visit with parents struggling to maintain care for their developmentally disabled adult children in the face of budget cuts. Plus: where are Michael Vick’s dogs now? And: the Amy Chua phenomenon.

Episode 2 - Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail

First Aired: January. 14,2011

In light of the Arizona shooting, we revisit a story on gun rights. Also: Two Haitian children treated in Boston after the earthquake, a look at high speed rail and author Peter Bergen on al Qaeda.

Episode 1 - Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan

First Aired: January. 07,2011

On the eve of Sudan’s historic elections, we profile a “lost boy” who returned to aid his hometown. Plus: medicating foster kids, more “fixing America” and advice from Peter Sagal.