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Dallas Kindergartners Get An Early Start On Money Management

Financial planners say it's important to start saving for retirement at a young age. You won't believe how young one group of investors is starting in Texas.

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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.