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Elizabeth Trovall

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Elizabeth Trovall covers immigration and health care for Marketplace from Houston. Previously, she worked as The Houston Chronicle’s immigration reporter. Her coverage included the “Haitian Odyssey” series, which detailed the cross-continental journeys of Haitian migrants.

Elizabeth’s first journalism job was at Business News Americas in Santiago, Chile. A dedicated public radio nerd, she also worked and interned at NPR stations in Houston, Marfa and Austin, Texas, and Columbia, Missouri. Her reporting has earned recognition from the Headliners Foundation of Texas, Best of the West, NABJ, NASW and others. She was also a 2023 Livingston finalist.

Like any good Texan, Elizabeth is a fan of Selena, H-E-B and breakfast tacos.

Latest Stories (119)

The Federal Reserve's Beige Book adds color to economic data

by Elizabeth Trovall
Apr 18, 2023
The influential update, also known as the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, comes out Wednesday.
Through interviews and surveys, the Beige Book tries to create a current snapshot of the economy.
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Immigrants' taxes play an outsized role in the U.S. government's fiscal health

by Elizabeth Trovall
Apr 11, 2023
Immigrant contributions to government revenues are higher than they may first appear.
Mexican immigrants work on a housing construction site on May 3, 2013 in Denver, Colorado.
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Immigrants help fill gaps in trucking workforce

by Elizabeth Trovall
Mar 6, 2023
Trucking is an increasingly immigrant-driven industry as U.S.-born drivers retire and demand to move freight remains high.
Like many trades, trucking doesn’t attract U.S.-born workers like it used to. The hours are long, and the median pay is around $48,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  
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After Trump-era cuts, refugee agencies have rebuilt to accommodate evacuating Afghans

by Elizabeth Trovall
Nov 10, 2022
Trump Administration-era cuts scaled back refugee programs, but the resettlement of 88,000 Afghans prompted them to ramp up and expand.
The rapid resettlement of Afghans over the last year left many refugee agencies scrambling. Above, a person wears a vest reading "Welcome" in Persian and English at an Afghan refugee camp in New Mexico.
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Program helps immigrant women launch child care businesses

by Elizabeth Trovall
Jul 28, 2021
The training enables them to help fill the child care gap as entrepreneurs, supporting Houston moms who want to enter or rejoin the workforce.
Ngoc Ho sings in English and Vietnamese with her young class at Dino Land Academy.
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Texas food banks say they could be short millions of pounds of food in early 2021

by Elizabeth Trovall
Jan 1, 2021
At a time of unprecedented need, a state program that provides fresh produce to food banks saw its funding cut.
Cars line up outside Houston's NRG Stadium to pick up boxes of food from the Houston Food Bank during the holiday season.
Courtesy of the Houston Food Bank
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Drop in global remittances may worsen poverty

by Elizabeth Trovall
Jun 29, 2020
Migrants who have lost wages due to COVID-19 are struggling to send funds back home to their families in poorer countries.
A man in Miami sends a remittance to his mother in Cuba.
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Amid worker shortage, Houston restaurant industry seeks immigration reform

by Elizabeth Trovall
Feb 11, 2020
According to one estimate, the national workforce will lose more than a million workers aged under 25 in the next eight years.
Cooks at Hugo’s restaurant in Houston, Texas, prepare for the lunch shift.
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Texan advocacy group fighting to recoup unpaid wages

by Elizabeth Trovall
May 30, 2019
Wage theft disproportionally affects those with limit resources to fight back.
A janitor does some cleaning at the Columbia Mall on July 24, 2017 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
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