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From The Newsroom: Payday Loans To Pay Bills, Prison Reform In Texas

KERA | By Courtney Collins
Published March 10, 2015 at 6:45 PM CDT
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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

In Dallas’ Jubilee Park, many people live on the financial edge. If they fall off, sometimes it seems like the only safety net is a payday loan.

And a poll released this week finds that the majority of Texans support criminal justice reform.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.
Courtney Collins
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.
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