US decision would hit families' pocketbooks in El Salvador

Posted: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:26 am

US decision would hit families' pocketbooks in El Salvador Associated Press | 0 comments

SAN SEBASTIAN SALITRILLO, El Salvador (AP) — Every two weeks, Flor Tovar receives a lifeline in the form of cash wired from her husband living in the United States.

The money pays the $50 rent for her modest two-bedroom home in a low-income housing development about an hour northwest of El Salvador's capital. It also covers school transportation for their two sons, the electricity, water and cable television.

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