State of the Union

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

ByEyes on Trafficking News

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…

Biden Pledged to Take On “Junk Fees.” He Should Start With Jails and Prisons.
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Biden Pledged to Take On “Junk Fees.” He Should Start With Jails and Prisons.

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In what was probably the first reference to “junk fees” during a State of the Union address, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration is cracking down on “those hidden surcharges too many companies use to make you pay more” and urged Congress to pass legislation expanding on the effort. “The idea that cable,…

Idaho bill would criminalize transportation of minors across state lines as a form of human trafficking
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Idaho bill would criminalize transportation of minors across state lines as a form of human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: this information is presented for your research.   A bill introduced in Idaho’s House of Representatives would criminalize the transportation of a minor within the state or across state lines to seek an abortion as a violation of the state’s human trafficking law. Republican Rep. Barbara Ehardt introduced House Bill 98 on Tuesday, which…

Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion
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Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion

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Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion. The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would prohibit “recruiting, …

Sen. Mazie Hirono to bring Native Hawaiian sex trafficking survivor as State of the Union guest
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Sen. Mazie Hirono to bring Native Hawaiian sex trafficking survivor as State of the Union guest

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A human trafficking advocate and former victim herself will be Sen. Mazie Hirono’s guest to the State of the Union address Tuesday night. The senator announced that she would be bringing Kalei Grant, assistant coordinator of the Hawai’i Department of the Attorney General’s Missing Child Center-Hawaii, to the annual event. Hirono told NBC News in…