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ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº'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 ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôºâ€™s  initiative, we found out what going without is really like.

Krys Boyd talked with , who writes about bouncing back and forth between middle class and being poor in (Putnam).