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One Crisis Away

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

VIDEO: The Dory Family On Keeping The Faith And Beating Back Debt

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published January 16, 2014 at 7:04 AM CST

KERA's seriesOne Crisis Away looks at four North Texas families on the financial edge. In this profile, meet the Dory family. Schnique and JC are raising two kids in White Settlement. Even though they have steady jobs and a nice house, they're constantly beating back debt and working to curb their spending.

http://youtu.be/E5xoX6NuowY

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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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