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ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's One Crisis Away project focuses on North Texans living on the financial edge.

VIDEO: Shirley Martin On Working Past Retirement Age

ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº | By Courtney Collins
Published February 12, 2014 at 5:04 PM CST

ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's series looks at four families on the financial edge. Shirley Martin is a 72 year-old woman living in Desoto and still working 19 hours a week to make ends meet. She says in order to juggle bills and her mortgage, it's a necessary part of life.

http://youtu.be/uoVuWBwOO1I
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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 ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 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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