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PBS's new TV and web newsmagazine gives you what you need to know -- along with a healthy dose of insight, perspective and wit. Need to Know cuts through the noise of nonstop news to bring you the most compelling stories of the week and of our times. Every Friday night nationwide and all week long on the web.

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Need To Know
Full episodes
164 VIDEOS

Dying to get back
25:15 Air Date 05/17/13

Help Wanted: Retraining America
25:16 Air Date 05/03/13

Debating the Second Amendment
25:16 Air Date 04/26/13

Financial literacy
25:16 Air Date 04/19/13

Main Street: Findlay, Ohio
25:10 Air Date 04/12/13

Behavioral economics at work
25:15 Air Date 04/03/13 Expires 04/03/18

Economic inequality and mobility
24:49 Air Date 03/29/13 Expires 03/29/18

Medical Devices
25:15 Air Date 03/22/13 Expires 03/22/18

Main Street: Salinas, California
25:16 Air Date 03/01/13 Expires 03/01/18

After Newtown: Gone Boy
25:14 Air Date 02/22/13 Expires 02/22/18

Banned in Arizona
25:14 Air Date 02/15/13 Expires 02/15/18

Can Medicare Be Fixed?
25:14 Air Date 02/08/13 Expires 02/08/18
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Shorts
631 VIDEOS

Searching for answers
5:02 Air Date 05/16/13

Echoes of a shooting
19:39 Air Date 05/10/13

Certifiably employable
12:41 Air Date 05/03/13

Interview: Seth Harris
6:13 Air Date 05/03/13

National STEM Consortium
0:26 Air Date 04/30/13

Restoring the Rockaways
3:02 Air Date 04/22/13

Interview: Richard Cordray
8:33 Air Date 04/19/13

Mississippi Savings
13:04 Air Date 04/19/13

American Voices: Dan Ariely
3:22 Air Date 04/05/13 Expires 04/05/18

Save USA
5:02 Air Date 04/05/13 Expires 04/05/18

Savings and loans
11:50 Air Date 04/05/13 Expires 04/05/18

Web extra: Prescription for savings
5:02 Air Date 04/05/13 Expires 04/05/18
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