Department of Health

The Department of Health is a government agency responsible for promoting and protecting the health and well-being of the population. The Department of Health may be responsible for a range of activities, such as monitoring disease outbreaks, promoting healthy behaviors and lifestyles, providing health care services, and regulating health care providers and facilities.

 

Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking gather to learn to combat human trafficking
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Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking gather to learn to combat human trafficking

Every year, some 24.9 million people worldwide fall victim to human trafficking, according to the U.S. Department of State. “In the United States, traffickers compel victims to engage in commercial sex and to work in both legal and illicit industries and sectors,” according to Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking, an initiative established by Mississippi Secretary of…

How U.S. policy drives child migrants into dangerous jobs
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How U.S. policy drives child migrants into dangerous jobs

Recent stories of migrant children working long hours and under dangerous conditions in the United States have shed light on how pervasive migrant child labor has become in this country. In December, Reuters published the third part of a year-long investigation about migrant children as young as 12 working in Alabama chicken plants and in…

Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages
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Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages

A grim truth underlies U.S. industry: the appalling practice of child labor, widely perceived as an anachronism, is far from a thing of the sooty industrial past. U.S. consumers may have a hazy sense that children labor somewhere in foreign sweatshops to manufacture their goods — but such faraway tragedies are too easily forgotten at…

Fighting human trafficking and battling Biden’s open border
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Fighting human trafficking and battling Biden’s open border

OPINION: Human trafficking is a global business generating $150 billion in illegal profits. It encompasses forced labor, sex trafficking, organ trafficking and more. President Biden has professed a commitment to fight this multifaceted criminal enterprise, yet his immigration policies have only exacerbated the problem. Human trafficking increased massively in the last fiscal year. Arrests rose…

Feds Crack Down on Illegal Child Labor: What You Need to Know – JD Supra
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Feds Crack Down on Illegal Child Labor: What You Need to Know – JD Supra

The Biden Administration recently announced a new initiative to investigate and enforce violations of child labor laws. Significantly, the crackdown will include more aggressive investigations of and accountability for companies benefiting from illegal child labor, even if those companies do not employ the children directly. The federal child labor laws, which were authorized by the…

The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More Immigration
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The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More Immigration

On storefronts throughout the U.S., “Help Wanted” signs have become about as ubiquitous as the stars and stripes. Today, there are roughly two job openings for every unemployed American. This historic labor shortage is propping up inflation as desperate employers raise wages to attract scarce workers, then boost prices to compensate for higher costs. Or…

NY Times Exposé: Migrant Child Laborers Taking US Children's Dangerous ​Jobs – Wonkette
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NY Times Exposé: Migrant Child Laborers Taking US Children's Dangerous ​Jobs – Wonkette

Remember how we all laughed at Newt Gingrich and mocked him back in 2011 when he suggested maybe schools could save money by hiring children to do the janitorial work and haha, did that idiot think it was 1890 or something? But of course, since the Reagan years, Republicans and business have been doing everything…

2023: College of Nursing & Health Sciences to present forum on sex trafficking and domestic violence
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2023: College of Nursing & Health Sciences to present forum on sex trafficking and domestic violence

Event designed to prepare future nurses and health care workers and share information with the community According to national statistics on domestic violence, one in seven women and one in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner. On a typical day, more than 20,000 phone calls are placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide….

Former victim warns of human trafficking signs | Local | journalgazette.net
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Former victim warns of human trafficking signs | Local | journalgazette.net

Human trafficking survivor Keeya Vawar hopes those who heard her speak Saturday left with greater awareness of an illicit multi-billion-dollar industry that thrives on victimizing people the world over. The Dallas, Texas woman also hopes the audience took away an understanding of some of the warning signs that could indicate a person is at risk…