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KERA's One Crisis Away project focuses on North Texans living on the financial edge.

VIDEO: Natalie Berquist Chooses Health Insurance Over Her Apartment

KERA's series One Crisis Away looks at four families on the financial edge. Natalie Berquist is a single mom living in Lewisville. She had been staying in a one bedroom apartment with her son Samuel, but an expense she hadn't planned for means she can no longer afford her rent, and has to move out.

http://youtu.be/0cXd_PPVRK8

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.