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MARICELA
BETANCOURT, 58,
JANITOR
SAN JOSE, CALIF.
After decades of
cleaning houses,
Betancourt wanted a
job with benefits, so
she started working at
Tesla. But her health
insurance hadn’t
kicked in when severe
abdominal pain brought
her to the ER, and then
Tesla sent the janitors
home without pay. The
hospital bill keeps rising
as her family struggles
to pay it and other bills.
With reporting
by Anna Purna
Kambhampaty,
Paul Moakley and
Olivia B. Waxman
FACES
OF THE
CRISIS
TIME sent
photographers
around the country
to document the
people who have
suddenly found
themselves out of
work and in limbo.
AR K MAHANEY FOR TIME
