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Human Sex trafficking is modern slavery as it stands today. Even though it may not affect all of us on a daily bases it is still something that people worry about today in the United States. According to Mark Logan, of the US state department “although owning slaves has long been outlawed in the U.S., modern-day slavery, or human trafficking, still exists globally. The U.S. State Department estimates that thousands are exploited for sex and labor and trafficked into the states each year.” ( NPR.com)
The government is trying to stop this circle of events. Government has put many services into play for these victims. “The Office of Victim of Crime in the department of Justice has made eligible for benefit and services. For example, food stamps, medicade, provide work opportunities, support services, child care and income assistance (ASPE.hhs.gov).” These serrvices help the victims feel safer and help them come back to real life. In terms of minors who need help there are all types of service for them such as refugee camps, restettlement help with independent living. Foster care is a big way that the government helps minors. They have regular foster care, therapeutic foster care and group homes. This types of help will help these kids recover and to keep them safe.
There is a major need to put information out into the world about human sex trafficking because many people don’t understand what it is and how dangerous it is. When people understand what human sex trafficking is they disagree with it strongly. Reading many articles and not a single one has a argument on how human sex trafficking is good. There is not as much knowledge as there should be on this topic and we need to make it more known.

Work Cited:

- National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org. 16 Oct. 2010. Web. 13 Oct.
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- Us department of health service. "Human sex trafficking victims ." US department
of health and human services . Web. 13 Oct. 2011.
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