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PBS News Hour

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Season 2013 Episode 3450 | 54m 07s

On our program tonight, we look at the budget compromise to end the fiscal fight in Congress. Also: educators experiment with flipping traditional classroom time for homework help, Pope Francis is named Time magazine's Person of the Year, a look back at the Madoff scheme five years on and a conversation with Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller.

Aired: 12/10/13 | Expires: 12/31/69
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