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One Crisis Away

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

VIDEO: Meet The Madrids, A Family Struggling Through A Medical Crisis

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM CST

KERA's new series One Crisis Away looks at four families on the financial edge. In the first profile, meet Isac Madrid, his wife Elizabeth and their 1-year-old son. Eighteen months ago, they had two incomes and a savings account. Now, after a medical setback, they're barely hanging on financially.

http://youtu.be/3cTNLMc_pl0

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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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