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

What It’s Like To Be Poor

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Members of America’s middle and upper classes have preconceived notions about what it means to be poor. This hour, as part of KERA’s One Crisis Away initiative, we found out what going without is really like.

Krys Boyd talked with Linda Tirado, who writes about bouncing back and forth between middle class and being poor in Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America(Putnam).