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Houston’s Salvadoran janitors fight to increase pay, benefits

Elizabeth Trovall | Marketplace

In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.