Janitor Gloria Espinoza still vividly remembers the moment she was laid off last year.
A supervisor gathered her and her colleagues at a parking lot of the office where she worked in San Francisco and then broke the news.
“I thought, ‘God, why us?’,” Espinoza said. “It was like receiving a bucket of cold water.”
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