Like so many nonprofit human-services employees, Johanna Ortiz, a pediatric community health worker, often struggles to make ends meet.
“There is no greater satisfaction than the gratitude the family gives us when we help them every day. However, my colleagues and our families cannot live off of gratitude,” the single mother said at a March 10 rally at City Hall where hundreds of nonprofit workers gathered to demand better pay.
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