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4:51 pm
Tue April 16, 2013

UPDATE: AA Flyers Grounded, But With 'A High Degree Of Tolerance'

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Failure of the American Airlines reservation system had planes stacked up on the ground and flyers on hold across the country for hours Tuesday.

Update, 5:50 p.m. : Tuesday's computer glitch grounded American Airlines for several hours and put the plans of thousands of stranded travelers on hold. KERA's Bill Zeeble talked to a few of them ​at DFW Airport's terminal C. 

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Business/Economy
12:53 pm
Thu April 11, 2013

Jobs Fair Attracts Veterans In Metroplex

More than one hundred employers are at the Dallas Convention Center today recruiting U.S. veterans. The event is part of the 100,000 Jobs Mission – which JPMorgan Chase and other big U.S. companies started a few years ago with a goal of hiring 100,000 transitioning service members and military veterans by 2020.

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1:30 pm
Thu March 7, 2013

KERA Joins Public TV Tech Alliance

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The Digital Convergence Alliance will put the "master control" operations of a number of large public TV stations across the country under one roof.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 7, 2013 (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX) - KERA announced today that it has joined the Digital Convergence Alliance, a consortium of public television stations that have come together to centralize master control broadcast operations. The Digital Convergence Alliance includes public television stations from several regions of the country.
Business/Economy
6:49 pm
Thu December 6, 2012

XTO Hits Brakes On Dallas Gas Drilling

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Barnett Shale drilling rig in Fort Worth

Plans for natural gas drilling in Dallas took an unexpected twist this week.  One of the major players is putting plans to drill on hold. 

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11:53 am
Mon December 3, 2012

Shining A Light On The 'Invisible' Working Poor

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Two-and-a-half million Americans are considered the "working poor" -- that's the highest that number's been in at least the last two decades, says Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler, who joins Krys Boyd on Think today at 1 p.m. Shipler wrote the book The Working Poor: Invisible In America. The public radio show Marketplace recently took an intriguing look at day-to-day life for these people. A couple of the choicest cuts: Kids often are charged with chipping in, and families sometimes even split up just to make ends meet.
Halima Tinson and Rickey Ricardo are scraping by on what little money Tinson makes serving lunch at a charter school. They live well below the poverty line in a neighborhood called City Heights in San Diego. Jolie Puidokas/Marketplace

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