From The Newsroom: Asset Poverty In North Texas, A Newly Minted Genius

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published September 18, 2014 at 6:44 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Dallas County residents are faring worse than the national average when it comes to having a bank account and being able to weather a financial storm. And hear from Austinite John Henneberger who is co-director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service. Wednesday, he was one of 21 Americans given a MacArthur Fellowship – a.k.a. the “genius grant.”

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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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