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Eighteen months ago, at around 7 p.m. practically every night, Chloe Lawson would start a four-mile walk to Subway, where she’d work the overnight shift, earning a buck above the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
Eight hours later, the then 19-year-old would clock out and head back to find somewhere to hopefully get some sleep.
She had no family, no friends she could stay with in Splendora, Texas, a small town outside Houston. She often found herself at “some shady hotel” or other unsafe places.
“I honestly didn’t have a
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