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Elizabeth Trovall

Senior Reporter

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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 (133)

What keeps economists up at night?

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 23, 2023
We asked some professors to riff on the theme of the Fed's annual Jackson Hole retreat: “Structural Shifts in the Global Economy.”
"I think the regular 8-to-5 schedules we used to have are really super hard for families," says Ayse Imrohoroglu of the University of Southern California.
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A Warmer World

The extreme heat takes a physical toll — and an economic one

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 18, 2023
Low-income workers who aren't able to choose their work schedules are especially hard hit. And that has a cost of its own.
Construction workers rebuild an interstate highway during a heat wave in Houston on July 14.
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Some restaurateurs are struggling despite food service sales growth

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 15, 2023
While takeout, delivery and drive-thru sales are above pre-pandemic levels, on-site dining remains down.
The pandemic has shifted where people eat as many moved away from urban areas and stopped going into the office, says Hudson Riehle of the National Restaurant Association.
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Nonprofit lenders compete to distribute $27 billion for greenhouse gas reduction projects

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 14, 2023
The money, mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, will be invested in heat pumps, electric vehicle infrastructure and other systems.
Grants from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund can go toward initiatives like boosting electric vehicle infrastructure.
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Guess where more new homes are being built: California or Texas?

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 11, 2023
Last year, more new homes were built in Dallas and Houston than in all of California, thanks in part to cheap and plentiful land.
While new construction in California, top, often gets bogged down by red tape, new builds make up more than a third of home inventory in Houston.
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Is shelter inflation data the most timely measure of housing costs?

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 10, 2023
As some CPI data lags, economists consider new rental data to better understand where housing costs are now.
While shelter inflation is still at 7.7% year-on-year, economists are incorporating new, more timely data into their forecasts that shows a cooling of housing prices.
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As health care moves into the home, do we have enough workers?

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 7, 2023
A quarter of referred patients were turned away from home health care providers because of staff shortages, an industry report says.
The COVID-19 pandemic "accelerated an awareness of the capabilities of care at home,” said Bill Dombi of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice.
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Visa denials for international students increasing

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 3, 2023
The Cato Institute found that the United States denied 35% of international student visas in 2022 — the highest denial percentage in decades.
In 2022, the number of international students was nearly 1 million, according to the Institute of International Education, but many student visas were denied.
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Barriers to Entry

New online platform helps immigrant workers recover stolen wages

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 3, 2023
The process of getting back stolen wages is complicated, time-intensive and often unsuccessful. Now, a new online platform is empowering immigrant advocates by making it easier to file wage theft claims.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that workers were owed $213 million in back wages in 2022, though that amount could be higher due to underreporting.
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The growing business of immigrant surveillance

by Elizabeth Trovall
Aug 2, 2023
Under the Biden administration, there’s been a rapid expansion of the electronic monitoring of immigrant families and individuals waiting for their immigration cases to move through the courts over several years. This investment in surveillance and case management tech is throwing private prison companies a lifeline.
A migrant charges his ankle monitor battery at an immigration facility in Texas. The use of ankle bracelets and GPS monitoring for recent border crossers with pending cases has ballooned under the Biden administration.
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