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Overview
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."
Cast
Alison Stewart 
Jon Meacham Seasons and episodes
4 seasons166 episodes
Season 2012
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E1 Help wanted: New Hampshire
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E2 Sexual politics
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E3 Voting, power and South Carolina
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E4 Florida, seniors and entitlements
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E5 Foreclosures in Nevada, high-tech jobs
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E6 Student debt, college and religion
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E7 Food stamps, poverty in America
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E8 Main Street, Cairo
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E9 ‘Help Wanted’ in Ohio
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E10 Cleaning up the tax mess
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E11 Revisiting ‘The Corner,’ bridging the racial divide
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E12 Update on military veterans
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E13 Texas justice
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E14 Help Wanted: Philadelphia
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E15 Power to the people
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E16 Crossing the line, part 1
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E17 Sea-level rise, death on the border
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E18 The view from Main Street, leaving Afghanistan and Dan Savage on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
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E19 Legal immigration, entrepreneurship
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E20 Financial inclusion
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E21 Green jobs, volunteerism
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E22 The future of health care
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E23 International justice
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E24 America’s immigration policies
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E25 Homecoming for veterans
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E26 Solving poverty in America
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E27 Braking the banks
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E28 Crossing the line, part 2
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E29 Living on the financial edge
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E30 Rahm’s grand plan
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E31 August 10, 2012
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E32 August 17, 2012
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E33 August 24, 2012
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E34 August 31, 2012
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E35 September 7, 2012
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